Nineteenth Street NW

A captivating financial thriller with a fast-paced plot, Nineteenth Street, N.W. offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms behind world economies. Freedom fighter Sophia Gemaye comes from an obscure, mineral-rich, third-world nation where the ruling elite plunders much of the country’s wealth. Western governments, greedy for the natural resources, turn a blind eye to the country’s routine oppression, deaths, and disappearances of its citizens.

To bring attention to the plight of her people, Sophia turns to economic terrorism and devises a plan to sabotage world currency markets by bringing even the mightiest corporations and economies to their knees. But her scheme requires software capable of manipulating bank numbers, and the only way she can obtain it is by wooing the man who created it for the International Monetary and Financial Organization, Harry Hoffinger.

Immediately suspicious of Sophia’s motivations, IMFO veteran Celine O’Rourke travels the world in pursuit of her secret. As the financial markets begin to crumble, and the lives of key finance ministers hang in the balance, both women will learn the cost of betrayal.