Bøker av Adam LeBor

There were no death certificates issued at Auschwitz. Nevertheless, Swiss banks still demand them before handing over the assets of account holders killed in the Holocaust to their surviving relatives. When the Jews of Europe entrusted their families' wealth to what they hoped would be a safe haven - the banks of Switzerland - they were wrong. Millions of dollars, deposited decades ago in good faith by Jews who were to die in the Nazi genocide, still lie in their vaults, earning interest and providing working capital for Swiss banks. However the involvement of neutral Switzerland in the finances of the Third Reich goes far beyond the dispute over dormant accounts. Swiss banks were the key foreign currency providers of the Nazi war machine; they knowingly accepted looted gold, stolen from the national banks of occupied Europe; and they operated an international banking centre for the Third Reich. Reissued with a new afterword, Adam LeBor reveals the true extent to which Swiss banks collaborated with the Nazi regime and profited from the deaths of millions of Jews.

Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy.

The death of an Arab financier reveals the dangerous fractures running through Budapest in Adam LeBor's latest dark police procedural.

A new edition of this acclaimed history of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa, with a major new afterword.

Chronicles the rise and fall of a ruthless leader who turned a vibrant and multi-ethnic country into a war-ravaged wound on the global conscience. This biography documents the life of Slobodan Milosevic, a man whose policies instigated four wars, and who exploited the most modern techniques of media management to whip up a nationalist frenzy.

UN negotiator Yael Azoulay uncovers a people-trafficking ring with links to Iran... and Washington.

A LONE AGENT. AN UNIMAGINABLE CONSPIRACY. UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay went rogue in Geneva and nearly lost her life. Her physical wounds are healed, but she will never be able to forget what happened. Now back in New York, Yael uncovers a chilling conspiracy whose end game is a devastating new war in the Middle East. But as Yael draws closer to the truth, she is forced to confront the ghosts of her past. As the few certainties of her life begin to crumble around her, a terrifying truth is laid bare: Yael has enormously powerful enemies who neither forgive, nor forget.

Fast-paced conspiracy thriller moving between New York, Geneva and the Congo. A gripping journey through the secret corridors of power by writer and journalist Adam LeBor.

How America fell for financier Bernie Madoff's $65 billion investment scam.

From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica to those of Darfur, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This title examines the role of the Secretariat, its relationship with the Security Council, and the failure of UN officials themselves to confront genocide.