The Match King ; Ivar Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century

Ivar Kreuger and the Financial Scandal of the Century. The story opens with the purchase of a 9mm Browning at a small Paris gun shop by a man named Ivar Kreuger. The next morning, the world's leading bankers nervously waited to ask Ivar about some forged Italian bonds. Hours later, his dead body was discovered and the largest financial empire of the era collapsed. This book traces Ivar's meteoric rise from the obscurity of provincial Sweden, to become a construction mogul and then a global business oligarch. Was he a financial genius or merely a schemer? This book brings back to life one of the greatest swindlers of all times.