The Swiss Account (1991)

by Paul Erdman

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Beyond Switzerland's borders, World War II is raging; within them, a seething hotbed of financial, political and sexual skulduggery threatens to tear the country apart, for its banking fraternity is only paying lip service to Switzerland's neutrality. By the author of The Last Days of America.

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Having read several other Paul Erdman books I have to say I was rather disappointed with this one: it's a strange mix of fact and fiction, more or less following a path of true events in world war 2 it just feels cumbersome and slow.

It was business & finance without the intrigue, set in world war 2 without the war for the most part and involved spies with a somewhat disjointed follow through of their activities.

For fiction would recommend Crash of '79, Last Days of America & Panic of '89 over this by far.

For a non-fiction seat of the pants 'story' would recommend Richard Preston's The Hot Zone. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Paul Erdman	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Rosenberg, Marie-Hélène	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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1991

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Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

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Beyond Switzerland's borders, World War II is raging; within them, a seething hotbed of financial, political and sexual skulduggery threatens to tear the country apart, for its banking fraternity is only paying lip service to Switzerland's neutrality. By the author of The Last Days of America.

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