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Nineteenth Street Northwest

Murder, intrigue, and the high-stakes world of currency speculation meet in
Brett Wood’s latest thriller that lays bare the all-too-real risk of a
modern-day financial crash.

About the book

Sophia Gemaye—young, beautiful, passionate—is a freedom fighter in the cause of
an oppressed minority. After an airline bombing goes horribly wrong, Sophia
devises a brilliant new plan to bring world attention to her people’s plight:
sabotage the world’s currency markets, where more than a trillion dollars trade
daily, bringing even the mightiest corporations and governments to their knees.

Her scheme will be neither cheap nor easy. Money she gets from some dubious
backers, but she also needs highly secret financial information. For this, she
heads to IMFO—the International Monetary and Financial Organization, located on
Nineteenth Street, N.W., in Washington D.C.

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Welcome to the International Monetary & Financial Organization (IMFO)

IMFO is an international organization––dedicated to fostering international
monetary and financial cooperation––that features in Brett Wood's stunning new
thriller, Nineteenth Street, N.W.

At this site, you can find out more about Nineteenth Street Northwest, including
reading some sample pages, order the book through major distributors in the
United States and the United Kingdom, learn about financial crises, and link to
other useful websites on international finance.

Could financial crises be exploited by terrorists?

The past few years have been extraordinarily benign in terms of global growth,
low interest rates, and strong demand for the commodities and exports that
emerging market countries produce. While many emerging market countries have
used the breathing space of the past few years to improve their
resilience—reducing their external debt, gradually accumulating foreign exchange
reserves, enhancing regulation and supervision of their banks and financial
sectors—others have not. The key question is whether emerging market economies
will be resilient to crises when, inevitably, the good times come to an end.

…“Most chilling of all was how perilously close the U.S. economy came to joining
the global meltdown in September and October 1998 … the convulsions on Wall
Street might well have engendered a worldwide slump.” The consequences for the
world economy would be catastrophic: not just billions of dollars lost, but
millions of livelihoods destroyed.

read more of Brett Wood's compelling companion essay

About IMFO  | Order the Book | Sample Pages | Financial Crises | Useful Links | 
About the Author