Dimensions
141 x 222 x 34mm
When Professor Michael Clayton dies in his rooms at Columbia University in New York, he leaves behind a will bequeathing the balances of his accounts to his son, Tom. Nothing unusual but then Tom discovers one is a numbered account at a Swiss bank containing nearly $50 million. Tom's a top City trader so with insider knowledge and huge losses from insider trading to make up he travels to Zurich, secures the funds, and tells his wife to offer on her dream country mansion. What Tom doesn't know yet is that his father was being used as a 'ghost' by a New York laundry operation: really the money belongs to Angel Morales, biggest cocaine baron in Medellin. When cartel and crooked bank find out, a murderous turf war is sparked between the cartels of Cali and Medellin, involving bent lawyers, cops, undercover DEA - and transatlantic assassins determined to make Tom pay. But the very highest stakes bring out a dark side in Tom rooted in his familys violent past... IThe Clayton Account/I is an exhilarating international thriller, part Robert Ludlum part Clear and Present Danger, in which one man's loss is very much another man's gain.
