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Crash

By: David Hagberg, Lawrence Light
Narrated by: Graham Winton
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Summary

The second Great Depression is coming. The world’s economies are groaning under too much debt. If one thing goes wrong, the entire rickety system collapses. Now, acclaimed award-winning New York Times best-selling novelist David Hagberg and renowned financial reporter Lawrence Light have combined forces to dramatize - hour by hour - how this all-too-real catastrophe could go down in Crash.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. To provide that one thing that goes wrong. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. The Wall Street gang’s investment bank will be the last one standing, able to make a killing amid the ruins. 

But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

Her boyfriend, a former Navy SEAL, is alarmed at Cassy’s disappearance and unravels the plot. Ben Whalen only has until the next morning to save the woman he loves and prevent the economic apocalypse.

This story is based on the genuine threat posed by towering debt, which will make the 2008 financial crisis look puny.

©2020 David Hagberg, Lawrence Light (P)2020 Recorded Books

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A good tale

I would have given this book 5 stars but for one small issue. The book has a great premise, that of a potential world disaster caused by a computer worm. The characters are well sketched out and the book is very well read but (beware of the but!) it all resolves too neatly whenever the hero gets involved and so there is a lack of dramatic tension. I am not too sure how that could have been resolved but it means that it lost some of its power as a book. I personally liked the explanations on economics and the US debt. Some may not want a lecture when listening to a fictional book but for me, I thought it a real bonus.

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Weak plot

Obvious plot. No twists or turns. Characters all stereotypes and never developed, so you didn’t really care what happened to any of them. Totally unbelievable

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