[Michael Berg 01] • The Paper Factory

The financial world just stopped turning. It's 2008 and Beirsdorf Klein, star spangled home of the masters of the universe, has just imploded in a disaster entirely of its own making.

Michael Berg, one time favourite of City of London investors, has also had better days. Sprawled across a grimy bed sheet in the sodden basement of a Sussex Gardens flop-house, Michael pulls himself from the dark place he's crawled into and vows to track down the man who destroyed his life.

Then he finds her. Or rather, she finds him. The mysterious Hungarian stranger who has shared a similar past. And so the race across Eastern Europe begins. To hunt down the ruthless Jay Rivello, destroyer of men, financial genius and soon to be richest man in the world.

Will Michael and Tereza get to him before the ruthless Bilderberg Group, a clandestine and secretive society whose high profile leadership will go to any lengths to stop the truth coming out.