Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

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Money Men tells the story from inside Wirecard's headquarters with entertaining drama and verve, but it also unspools the high-stakes reporting process McCrum and his colleagues carried out at the Financial Times against the odds. A woeful state of affairs if political élites’ contemporary aspirations involve nurturing an overvalued tech company of questionable social utility. I think there is an element of Anglo-pride which comes through this book and a somewhat disdainful treatment of the German corporate class which while warranted from Dan McCrum's perspective is not entirely fair for the broader German business class. Taking advantage of every loophole that ever existed and relying on businesses across Asia that didn't have the regulation that the Western world has, they ponzi schemed their way to a 20 billion dollar evaluation.

I’d already had a few minor successes, but I longed for a greater challenge – a case I could argue and prove my abilities.For a few minutes I followed her around the kitchen, talking excitedly as she offered me almond cookies and hazelnut treats before dinner. It’s the passages where we see McCrum sitting in his car scared, or lifting his daughter with glee as he tells her that the bad guys are going to jail, which are the most poignant — I only wished there were more of them. Going head to head with powerful executives, their teams of lawyers and intelligence operatives, Dan McCrum has uncovered one of the biggest economic scandals in Europe. Readers will meet the rich, the famous, the infamous, the powerful, and the powerless in the USA, England, Monaco, France, and Switzerland. On the other hand, if you’re coming to Money Men from scratch, looking for a quick introduction to a wild story, then your best bet is probably to start off with McCrum’s original journalism and then come back to the book.

We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. It was now the start of Sabbath — sundown on Friday evening – and Grandma set down the roasting pan in the center of the crisp, white tablecloth, and lifted the shawl, which had been draped on her shoulders, up over her hair.The great Moses Maimonides said, grandfather intoned, quoting the 12th-Century teacher of the Torah, "‘If I am not for me, then who is for me? Equally interesting was McCrum's depiction of the heady and tight-knit world of the billionaire ecosystem. And that he was devoted, not only to me and the family and our heritage, but to something – and to Someone — far greater than all of us. Cupping her wrinkled hands around the candles that burned steadily at table center, she offered up the Sabbath blessing. The bank accounts and trades of suspected “enemies” were being monitored for evidence of bribery or market manipulation.