The world’s financial system is collapsing. Wall Street is in free-fall. Governments are scrambling to save banks. Fortunes are disappearing overnight.

Amid the chaos, Bank of Zürich investigator Jim Simons is sent to New York on what should be a routine assignment: review a prestigious hedge fund investment linked to the bank’s charitable foundation.

But something doesn’t add up.

The fund has survived the financial crisis untouched. Its returns are remarkably consistent. Its investors are fiercely loyal. And the deeper Simons digs, the more he uncovers a hidden world beneath Manhattan’s financial elite—one where financiers, organised crime, cartel money, human trafficking and political influence intersect behind a façade of wealth and respectability.

As markets unravel and panic spreads across the globe, Simons and his team find themselves drawn into a dangerous investigation stretching from Wall Street and Palm Beach to Mexico, Switzerland and Washington D.C.

Powerful people have spent years protecting the truth. Some are willing to kill to keep it buried. Because some crises destroy economies. Others expose what was hiding inside them all along.

CRISES is a gripping financial thriller inspired by real events surrounding the 2008 financial collapse, major financial scandals, cartel violence and the abuse of power at the highest levels of finance, business and government.