This is a world not merely of enormous money. This is a world where, apart from money, nothing else exists at all. No, of course, many things do exist—love and friendship, infidelity and betrayal. But… does any of that matter to today’s moneychangers—professional bankers? People may scheme, lie, steal, ruin their own lives and others’—it means absolutely nothing as long as the financial empire stands. But if the empire should one day begin to totter—what then?