The Banker and the Eagle, Martin Lundqvist
The Banker and the Eagle, Martin Lundqvist
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The Banker and the Eagle
The End of Democracy

Author: Martin Lundqvist

Narrator: Elaine Hidayat, Martin Lundqvist

Unabridged: 3 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2020


Synopsis

Unhappy with the election outcome, the Banker plots to kill the US president. It is the year 2028, and the terrorist group Guns Against Globalism attacks the Factual News Network headquarters owned by the corrupt media mogul Damien Vanderbilt. This attack sets a dangerous chain of events in motion.The attack leads to the idealistic independent presidential candidate Eva Moreno, coming in possession of damning evidence against the Banker, Pierre Beaumont, regarding the Hei Bai virus outbreak and the dangerous drug Reversogene that Pierre released in 2021.Pierre sets out to make Damien Vanderbilt the US president to save himself and he gets help from his co-conspirators; the Monocle Conspiracy, an underground group in possession of monocles holding the secrets of an ancient alien artificial intelligence.Meanwhile, the democratic president of China, Eileen Lu, is desperately trying to support Eva to bring down Pierre once and for all.In the end, who will win and who will lose in this dangerous game of chance?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Phillip Parker on December 10, 2024

The story has the pace of an eagle in flight. Characters are cruelly crushed with the brute strength of an eagle’s talons catching its prey. Book 2 of the Banker trilogy gets an equal star rating of 4 as I did book 1. Like the Eagle and its prey this book picks up the story from book 1, holds it in......more

Goodreads review by Geoffrey on January 20, 2021

Loved the storyline and the character development in this novel, the second of a trilogy. The author has skillfully drawn together the major characters from the last book, and added new ones when required, to really drive the story forward. I finished this book in under 2 hours - was hard to put it......more

Goodreads review by Terry on October 23, 2020

Something about this book just didn't sit right with me and I'm not sure what it is. It's very well written and there is no real good guy, although anything close to that gets killed off. The premise is not realistic, but the comparison with present day politics is rather interesting. That being sai......more