The Zurich Protocol: A Legal Thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241372963)

Clay Hastings and Sal Tanner just achieved the impossible. After a brutal legal war, they secured a Supreme Court judgment returning the Lighthouse Tract to the Choctaw Nation, along with $52 billion in restorative damages. It was supposed to be the victory of the century.

But sixty seconds after the gavel fell, the account hit zero.

The money wasn't lost-it was hunted. The culprit is Protocol Z-77, a weaponized trading algorithm designed to short-sell the survival of sovereign nations. It converts catastrophe into capital, and it just bet against the Choctaw's future.

The trail leads to Zurich, to the impregnable fortress of Banque Valois and its ruthless CEO, Julian Kross. Kross believes he is untouchable, shielded by Swiss banking secrecy and an army of mercenaries. He thinks Clay and Sal are just lawyers who will drown in paperwork.

He is wrong.

With the clock ticking down to a permanent data purge, Clay and Sal must trade their briefcases for ballistics. To reclaim the money, they have to breach a frozen World War II bunker buried deep in the Alps-a place where the law doesn't reach, and the only way out is through the fire.

From the marble halls of D.C. to the frozen peaks of Switzerland, The Zurich Protocol is a high-octane thriller about the price of justice when the system is rigged.