Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Grea

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Part investigative journalism, part crime thriller, part moral parable for our times, this book is an absolute tour-de-force by experienced author, journalist and newspaper editor Chris Blackhurst. Meticulously-researched, Too Big to Jail is packed with enough compelling characters, shadowy deals and shocking revelations to keep you reading from the first page to the last.At the very heart of this book is a relationship between the ruthless Sinaloa Cartels, the shiny corporate world of HSBC and the grubbier end of British politics. It's a relationship that seems unlikely at first, until Blackhurst peels away the layers to demonstrate how dark money corrupts everything it touches.Like Mayer's 'Dark Money' or Michael Lewis' 'The Big Short', 'Too Big to Jail' seems destined to take pride of place in the pantheon of books that expose the sordid underbelly of corporate life. Blackhurst is a compelling writer with a highly readable style and the whole thing is just a thoroughly enjoyable read. I look forward to seeing what he does next!

Interesting book detailing the shenanigans of HSBC in Mexico.

Really interesting read but also a shocking one too!We put our faith in these institutions and time and again they let down the communities they serve. I am genuinely shocked at the scale of this scandal. The misery caused by drugs, but this shows to some corporations the drug is money!An easy read, well structured, finished it in a couple of days.One small complaint is the continued dig at Stephen Green being a Christian. Had he professed to any other religion I wonder if the author would have been so guilty of such snipes?

Rob a bank, you go to jail. Robber bank?... the boss gets ennobled. And the politicians who facilitate it then take the dirty $$$ on the rubber chicken circuit. Blackhurst's investigation of HSBC and their funding of the Sinaloa cartel is a highly entertaining - and thoroughly depressing - tale of corporate greed, mismanagement (or, rather, total lack of management) and blame avoidance. The old saw that "white collar crime has no victims" is debunked in ghastly detail. As you'd expect from a former feature writer and newspaper editor, the tale is told briskly and stylishly, with black humour aplenty. In fact, it reads more like fiction, although sadly most of the villains are real and very few, unlike El Chapo, doing time. Crime and punishment? Not in the City. A thoroughly deserved 5*