#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times finance editor
David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world revealing its shadowy
ties to Donald Trump Putin's Russia and Nazi Germany ?A jaw-dropping financial thriller?
?Philadelphia Inquirer On a rainy Sunday in 2014 a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found
hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial
institution into a global colossus and his sudden death was a mystery made more so by the
bank's efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit it turned out was a man who knew too much.
In Dark Towers award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and
its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank's history back to its propping up of a
default-prone American developer in the 1880s helping the Nazis build Auschwitz and wooing
Eastern Bloc authoritarians he shows how in the 1990s via a succession of hard-charging
executives Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches often at the expense
of ethics and the law. Soon the bank was manipulating markets violating international
sanctions to aid terrorist regimes scamming investors defrauding regulators and laundering
money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold Deutsche also started
doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world
deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years Deutsche executives
loaned billions to Trump the Kushner family and an array of scandal-tarred clients including
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how
Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality?the corporate
equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by
fear of what he'd seen at the bank?and his son's obsessive search for the secrets he kept.
