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Imagine if someone handed you a blank checkbook along with a new office and a full-time assistant. No rules or apparent limits. And no one waiting offstage to tell you what to do, or how much money is there for you to use. Ultimately, you learn that this anonymous benefactor has, in effect, provided you entrée into the cloistered world of billionaires and the methods by which they earn their unimaginable riches. Given this incomparable opportunity, for reasons that only become clear as the story unfolds, is Seth Thomas, a jaded investigative journalist with The Washington Post. The tension and high stakes never let up as Thomas races to find out: Who is the mysterious billionaire benefactor that's provided him this never-empty bank account? What exactly does this person want him to accomplish with all that money? And can he and his assistant even survive if he must deal directly with Russia's Mafia kingpin and the country's ruthless leader to get his answers? That's the premise of THE BILLIONAIRES' CLUB, a novel that journeys deep into the inner sanctum of this exclusive club-just 2,700 people now control more than half of all the world's wealth.

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A Washington Post reporter on the downslope of a long career--a print media dinosaur in the digital era--is targeted by an unknown benefactor. Or is it a malefactor? What follows is a brilliant, fast-paced political thriller with echoes of Tom Clancy. Jeff Nesbit knows first-hand the world he writes about. It's an exciting and entertaining read. Read the first page and you'll be hooked. --David Gelber, Former Longtime 60 Minutes Producer Whose Work Won Every Major Journalism Award, Including a Peabody, Two DuPont Awards, and Eight Emmy Awards Much of our world is now in the hands of an exclusive billionaire's club--fewer people than you'd find in a small town but holding some $9 trillion. In The Billionaires' Club, Jeff Nesbit gives us Seth Thomas, a reporter who says, I had no desire be a master of the universe. But some part of me wanted to test-drive it a bit.' It's a wild ride! --John Schwartz, Former Lead Science, Tech, and Business writer for The New York Times and The Washington Post, who now teaches journalism at the University of Texas at Austin A suspenseful, follow-the-money mystery that takes the reader on a tour behind the headlines into the shadowy world of cryptocurrency, led by an intrepid, globe-trotting journalist. --Ed Chen, Former Washington, DC-based Journalist with The Los Angeles Times; Former Senior White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News; and Retired Federal Communications Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council The Billionaires' Club is a marvelous mystery packed with entertaining insights into the corrupt intersection of extreme wealth and global politics. Nesbit deftly infuses a terrific tale with his deep knowledge of journalism and the dark inner workings of business, science, politics, and cryptocurrency to create a fascinating tale of intrigue that feels eerily, frighteningly real. --Robert Roy Britt, Author of the Eli Quinn Mystery Series, former editor at The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, Former Editor-in-Chief of Live Science and Space.com, and Retired Media Executive Seth Thomas is an old school reporter who chases stories with a tenacity that in the age of digital news is both rare and unappreciated. So when he receives a cryptic text inviting him to an office across from the White House, he is intrigued, then obsessed. Why was he there and who sent the text? The questions beget questions and draw him into the world of big-dollar investments, cryptocurrency, and political corruption. He doggedly seeks the source of the email, his benefactor, and in doing so discovers the invisible hands that control and manipulate most of the world's wealth. The Billionaire's Club is a cleverly woven story that draws the reader into this world one clue at a time. Well written and engaging. --Elliott light, author of Throwaways: A Jake Savage Mystery, and the critically acclaimed Shep Harrington Small Town Mystery Series A thinking person's thriller, The Billionaires' Club opens the door to the mindset and maneuverings behind global money movement. It's a fast-paced and taut tale of how trillions are laundered and legitimized right before our eyes. Jeff Nesbit is a masterful storyteller. His novel gripped me--someone who worked undercover for the FBI investigating a huge fraud--in a way I haven't felt since my own dark and lonely days. --Richard D. Baily, author of the true-crime book Pirate Cove Author Jeff Nesbitt has created such a detailed and granular world that I began to wonder if I hadn't read this story in the news not so long ago. If you have any interest in how our monied political system works, you'll be fascinated by The Billionaires' Club. --Joe Lane, Author of the acclaimed political thriller Aftershock

""This incisive thriller from Nesbit (author of This Is the Way the World Ends, among other titles) explores the dark side of wealth and politics with rare verisimilitude... Nesbit has crafted a fast-paced thriller that pulses with danger and underhanded politics on a world scale, with welcome attention paid to the realities of international financial crimes like the kinds revealed in the Panama Papers... Nesbit builds compelling tension throughout the story, tantalizingly revealing just enough of what Seth is stepping into to keep readers hooked until the final act. Faced with doing what is easy and profitable versus doing what is right, The Billionaires' Club cuts to the heart of corruption, dramatizing the temptations of extreme wealth with a classic moral dilemma. Seth's determination to discover and expose the truth will keep readers invested. Fans of political thrillers, and mysteries informed by investigative reporting, will be enthralled."" --BookLife-Publishers Weekly ""Editor's Pick"" ""Nesbit's tale is a remarkable brew of mystery and political intrigue in which the protagonist explores a rarefied world of nihilistic corruption that includes the upper echelons of the American political class. Literary portrayals of this strange universe tend to be either comic-book fantasies brimming with melodramatic hyperbole or insipidly stale. The author here manages to realistically depict the shadowy corridors of wealth and power with electricity while avoiding gratuitous flights of fancy. Also, main character Seth Thomas is a mesmerizingly complex character ... This is an engrossing tale--thoughtful, worldly, and deeply entertaining. A gripping novel that vividly captures the dark cosmos of financial malfeasance."" --Kirkus Reviews ""The Billionaires' Club is a pulse-pounding political thriller in which a dogged journalist unearths national and international secrets, winding up at the center of an intricate web of stories with weighty consequences."" -Clarion Forewords Reviews ""This incisive thriller from Nesbit (author of This Is the Way the World Ends, among other titles) explores the dark side of wealth and politics with rare verisimilitude. Nesbit has crafted a fast-paced thriller that pulses with danger and underhanded politics on a world scale, with welcome attention paid to the realities of international financial crimes like the kinds revealed in the Panama Papers. Nesbit builds compelling tension throughout the story, tantalizingly revealing just enough of what Seth is stepping into to keep readers hooked until the final act. Faced with doing what is easy and profitable versus doing what is right, The Billionaires' Club cuts to the heart of corruption, dramatizing the temptations of extreme wealth with a classic moral dilemma. Seth's determination to discover and expose the truth will keep readers invested. Fans of political thrillers, and mysteries informed by investigative reporting, will be enthralled."" -BookLife-Publishers Weekly ""Editor's Pick"" ""A Washington Post reporter on the downslope of a long career-a print media dinosaur in the digital era-is targeted by an unknown benefactor. Or is it a malefactor? What follows is a brilliant, fast-paced political thriller with echoes of Tom Clancy. Jeff Nesbit knows first-hand the world he writes about. It's an exciting and entertaining read. Read the first page and you'll be hooked."" -David Gelber, Former Longtime 60 Minutes Producer Whose Work Won Every Major Journalism Award, Including a Peabody, Two DuPont Awards, and Eight Emmy Awards ""Much of our world is now in the hands of an exclusive billionaire's club-fewer people than you'd find in a small town but holding some $9 trillion. In The Billionaires' Club, Jeff Nesbit gives us Seth Thomas, a reporter who says, ""I had no desire be a master of the universe. But some part of me wanted to test-drive it a bit.' It's a wild ride!"" -John Schwartz, Former Lead Science, Tech, and Business writer for The New York Times and The Washington Post, who now teaches journalism at the University of Texas at Austin ""A suspenseful, follow-the-money mystery that takes the reader on a tour behind the headlines into the shadowy world of cryptocurrency, led by an intrepid, globe-trotting journalist."" -Ed Chen, Former Washington, DC-based Journalist with The Los Angeles Times; Former Senior White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News; and Retired Federal Communications Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council ""The Billionaires' Club is a marvelous mystery packed with entertaining insights into the corrupt intersection of extreme wealth and global politics. Nesbit deftly infuses a terrific tale with his deep knowledge of journalism and the dark inner workings of business, science, politics, and cryptocurrency to create a fascinating tale of intrigue that feels eerily, frighteningly real."" -Robert Roy Britt, Author of the Eli Quinn Mystery Series, former editor at The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, Former Editor-in-Chief of Live Science and Space.com, and Retired Media Executive ""Seth Thomas is an old school reporter who chases stories with a tenacity that in the age of digital news is both rare and unappreciated. So when he receives a cryptic text inviting him to an office across from the White House, he is intrigued, then obsessed. Why was he there and who sent the text? The questions beget questions and draw him into the world of big-dollar investments, cryptocurrency, and political corruption. He doggedly seeks the source of the email, his benefactor, and in doing so discovers the invisible hands that control and manipulate most of the world's wealth. The Billionaire's Club is a cleverly woven story that draws the reader into this world one clue at a time. Well written and engaging."" -Elliott light, author of Throwaways: A Jake Savage Mystery, and the critically acclaimed Shep Harrington Small Town Mystery Series ""A thinking person's thriller, The Billionaires' Club opens the door to the mindset and maneuverings behind global money movement. It's a fast-paced and taut tale of how trillions are laundered and legitimized right before our eyes. Jeff Nesbit is a masterful storyteller. His novel gripped me-someone who worked undercover for the FBI investigating a huge fraud-in a way I haven't felt since my own dark and lonely days."" -Richard D. Baily, author of the true-crime book Pirate Cove Author Jeff Nesbitt has created such a detailed and granular world that I began to wonder if I hadn't read this story in the news not so long ago. If you have any interest in how our monied political system works, you'll be fascinated by The Billionaires' Club. -Joe Lane, Author of the acclaimed political thriller Aftershock

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JEFF NESBIT has held four highly significant jobs with four different U.S. presidents. Currently the Deputy Commissioner for Communications at the Social Security Administration, he was the National Science Foundation's director of legislative and public affairs in the Bush and Obama administrations, former Vice President Dan Quayle's communications director at the White House, and the Food and Drug Administration's public affairs chief under FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler, who was later President Biden's chief scientific officer for COVID-19 response. Once profiled in The Wall Street Journal as one of the seven people who ended the Tobacco Wars, Nesbit-a former national journalist with Knight Ridder and others-was also the founder and executive director (2011-2022) of Climate Nexus, the New York-based non-profit environmental media organization he launched after leaving the NSF in 2011. Climate Nexus is funded entirely by foundations, with a staff that includes former national journalists from the Associated Press, CBS News, and other national media organizations and senior communications professionals from leading environmental groups. Nesbit also managed a successful strategic communications company for more than a decade with national clients and projects that included the Discovery Channel networks, Yale University, the American Heart Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Red Cross. This company helped create and launch three unique television networks for Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Lockheed Martin. It developed programming and a new cable TV network concept for The Britannica Channel; global programming partnerships for the successful launch of the Discovery Health Channel, including a novel CME programming initiative and the Medical Honors live broadcast from Constitution Hall; and programming strategies for the creation of the first-ever IPTV network developed by Lockheed Martin. While at the NSF, Nesbit was the co-creator of the Science of the Olympic Winter Games and the Science of NFL Football video series with NBC Learn and NBC Sports, which won the 2010 Sports Emmy for best original sports programming, as well as The Science of Speed, a novel video series partnership with the NASCAR Media Group. Nesbit wrote a popular weekly science column, ""At the Edge,""for U.S News & World Report from 2012-2018. He also contributed regularly to The New York Times, Time magazine, and Axios. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Poison Tea (St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, 2016) and This Is the Way the World Ends (St. Martin'sPress/Macmillan, 2018). Nesbit has written more than 30 commercially successful novels for a wide range of publishing houses, including the blockbusters Peace, Oil, and Jude.

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