The Great Game( The Counterpoint Trilogy #2)-大博弈

作者：D.R. Bell

书名：The Great Game( The Counterpoint Trilogy #2)《大博弈》

英文简介：The Great Game is an international intrigue and thriller piece set against the backdrop of a near future in which China and Russia have staged a financial coup against the U.S. dollar to replace it as the world's reserve currency. Fortunes are made and lost in a matter of hours. But some have more far-ranging plans than financial gain. 

Computer engineer David Ferguson has no idea that a chance meeting with a friendly stranger in the airport will change everything. Suddenly, he is running for his life, without knowing why or from whom. In trying to evade his pursuers, David accidentally involves Maggie Sappin, a graduate student and a transplant from Kiev. To save themselves, they have to uncover the reasons behind a financial crisis and political upheaval that followed. From Los Angeles to Texas, Kiev, Moscow, and New York, the body count mounts along with the layers of deception as two innocent people become key players in—The Great Game. 

This is a work of fiction. But what are presented in the story as facts of the time of writing are indeed facts in real life. And if some elements look hard to imagine, back in the early 1980s one would have been laughed at for suggesting that in a few short years people would be dancing on top of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union would be no longer. Are there any lessons in this for us? Have we learned from the two market crashes and financial upheavals we have had already in this still young century? What will be the eventual price of the massive deficits that our fiscal policies are leaving to the younger generation?