Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo, educated in the USA, worked for several years in large Swiss banks in Geneva and Zurich; He has been a professional writer since 1995. Reich is the author of eight novels, one of the best modern masters of the action-packed detective story, whose books have been compared to the works of Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsythe and Tom Clancy. Christopher Reich, this "John Grisham of the world of finance" (New York Times), in his fascinating The novel "The Devil's Banker" again turns to the well-known themes of big money and international conspiracy. An explosion in the dormitory of the University City in Paris - and there is neither a main suspect nor a case with money (almost half a million dollars). The CIA is confident that the deceased was a participant in the preparation of a terrorist attack on US territory. To prevent a repeat of the tragedy of September 11, 2001, an international task force is urgently being formed. Her task is to trace the entire path of the disappeared “blood” money. Particular hopes are placed on financial investigation specialist, American Adam Chapel, who is accustomed to trusting numbers more than people. British intelligence agent Sarah Churchill becomes his main assistant. Together they will have to penetrate the insidious plan of a devilishly sophisticated mind, by the will of which gigantic sums of money wander from country to country, from bank to bank, leaving no trace so that Armageddon will break out at the appointed hour. While Chapel figures out the trajectory of money between Paris, Munich, Paraguay, the United States and Saudi Arabia, Sarah tries to figure out the enemy's intelligence network. Time waits for no one when the devil himself plays on the stock exchange! There are only a few days, hours, minutes left to prevent a catastrophe, to forestall a masterfully calculated strike designed to hit a target that is impossible to even imagine...