The Kyoto List

ADVENTURE / THRILLER. If it takes only a few rogue financiers to collapse the economy, can one earnest investment officer save the dollar from collapse? Ken Murai, the protagonist of this fast-paced novel by Michael S. Koyama, is a young officer in the Japanese ministry of finance who one day discovers a plot by one of his superiors to organize a group, known as the Kyoto List, of corrupt officials, bankers, businessmen, and journalists from the United States, Europe, and Asia. The List plans to wreck the world's financial system - and grab enormous wealth for itself in the process. This exhilarating novel of high finance was written by an economics insider fascinated and gravely concerned by the financial environment born in the near-meltdown of 2008. Koyama paints an exciting and entertaining expert's portrait of the lawless financial interests that have the power to devastate global economies for the sake of a market that measures ethics only in profits.