The Asian Great Gatsby
Succumb to the intoxicating world of wealth, prestige, and celebrity in this fictional novel told from the perspective of someone who was there.
About the book
An intricate choreography of greed
So concludes Jho Low, Malaysian businessman and mastermind of the notorious 1MDB scandal, as he narrates this fictional account of the affair. All told, Jho Low siphoned $4.5 billion from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
This imagined retelling of Jho Low’s story, based on real events, gives readers an insider’s view of the glitzy, glamorous world of wealth and privilege, as well as a close-up look at this enigmatic protagonist’s high-stakes fall from grace. The narrator is quirky yet eloquent, at times thoughtful and other times brash, as he leads readers through the corridors of power, where the line between friend and foe blurs. As secrets unravel and fortunes teeter on the edge, readers get a front-row seat to the dark underbelly of high finance and the price of unchecked ambition and greed.
Ivanka Trump was the type of girl I liked to have around me
Her rejection of my invite to party at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino turned into a unique opportunity later on, one that few people can say they’ve ever experienced. But I’m going to
tell you all about that in context later on. It’s an interesting story, so you might want to stick around.
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About Author Hans Peter Brunner
An international banker for more than forty-five years, Hans Peter Brunner began his career with Credit Suisse (CS), where he worked for twenty-seven years, eventually specializing in private banking.
Brunner was the first Swiss banker in China, opening CS’s representative office in Beijing in 1985. Three years later, he was promoted to head of North Asia, overseeing people working in offices in South Korea, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Under Brunner’s leadership, the North Asian region became one of the most profitable areas of CS.
Later, Brunner left CS to become chief operating officer of the Asian region of Coutts International, based in Singapore. By 2000, he had risen to CEO, based in Zurich.
In 2010, Brunner became head of BSI Bank’s Singapore-based Asia operations, building it from virtually the ground up into a highly profitable operation with more than two hundred employees, many of whom had followed him from Coutts to BSI.
His awards include being voted Outstanding Private Banker, Asia Pacific, by Private Banker International in 2008 and Asian Private Banker of the Year 2010 by Asian Private Banker in 2011.
A Swiss citizen, Brunner resides in Singapore with his wife of thirty-eight years. They have two sons.
