A dead rhino. Dirty gold. A financial system where the truth is hard to find.

When Jim Simons, the Bank of Zürich’s legendary financial crime investigator, begins asking simple questions about the origins of Swiss gold, he uncovers something far darker than illicit trading.

From the gold souk of Dubai and the private vaults of Switzerland, to the savannahs of Kenya, Rhino Gold follows the hidden veins through which blood money courses to become respectable wealth. Behind the world’s purest gold lies a supply chain that involves politicians, fixers and financiers tied together by greed, corruption and power.

As the investigation leads to Africa, Simons and his team discover trade based money laundering, corruption and illegal wildlife trafficking which is a trade pound for pound more valuable than gold and a gateway into organised crime, sanctions evasion and global money laundering on an industrial scale.

But in some parts of the world, some men are untouchable. And some truths are dangerous enough to kill for.

Inspired by real events, Rhino Gold is a sophisticated international thriller combining financial crime, wildlife trafficking, gold smuggling and high-stakes investigations in a story where nothing — and nobody — is as clean as it first appears.