Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

　　「情結晦暗緊湊，讓人欲罷不能、挑燈夜讀！」──榮登《紐約時報》、《出版人週刊》暢銷榜名著《惡血：矽谷獨角獸的醫療騙局！深藏血液裡的祕密、謊言與金錢》作者力薦

　　2014年，一個陰雨綿綿的星期天，威廉·布羅克斯密特(William Broeksmit)陳屍在自己的公寓裡，死因是上吊。布羅克斯密特身為德意志銀行的高階主管、且是讓有150年歷史的財務機構躋身全球巨頭的一大功臣，前景可說是一片看好，卻突然死於非命，銀行業界紛紛覺得事有奚翹，著手調查。許多人揣測，布羅克斯密特之死，是因為他得知太多機密內幕。

　　德意志銀行在1880年代左右竄起，協助納粹成立奧斯威辛集中營，並極力討好冷戰期間的社會主義國家；而在1990年代，德意志銀行改變經營策略，極力併購相關企業，在極短的時間內成為歐洲「宇宙行」。

　　而後，德意志銀行不顧國際制裁，支援恐怖組織政權、詐騙投資商及有關監管單位，甚至幫俄羅斯當局洗錢。此外，德意志銀行開始和其他銀行避之惟恐不及的房地產巨頭──川普──往來，這二十年來，融資了數十億元給川普、川普的女婿傑瑞德·庫許納家族，還有一大堆像傑佛瑞·艾普斯坦(Jeffrey Epstein)這類醜聞纏身的客戶。

　　《Dark Towers》回溯德意志銀行的過往，探究它如何一步一步成為如今的樣貌，同時也訴說了一個親眼目睹其中內幕的男人，如何被恐懼所吞噬，而他的兒子，則誓言拼湊出這個醜陋事實的全貌。(文/博客來編譯)

　　“Enrich tells the story of how one of the world's mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy. Darkly fascinating. A tale that will keep you up at night.” — John Carreyrou, #1 bestselling author of Bad Blood

　　From New York Times finance editor David Enrich, a searing exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany

　　On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.

　　In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.

　　Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

　　Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.