Pipeline Rating: AAA

Financial Content: $$$$$

An excellent read by master story teller Ken Follet. Well-researched and painstakingly realistic, one is transported back to the mean streets and society of 1800s England.

Financial Content: Those interested in the "credit cycle" will see parallels in the loosening of lending standards for the South American boom in the late 1800s. Collapsing credit takes on a whole new meaning when bank shareholders lose all their personal wealth in a "financial panic".