The Birth of the Financial Thriller: Making a Killing in the 1970s

Discover the untold story of the financial thriller, a genre pioneered by Canadian banker—turned—author Paul Erdman from a Swiss prison cell. Starting with the publication of The Billion Dollar Sure Thing in 1973, this book explores the genre’s evolution as a popular and even vulgar genre of financialisation, characterised by volatile plots centred on currency speculation where the central mystery is money, not murder. By contextualising the rise of financial thrillers within the dramatic e...