John Kinsella
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Barry Simmonds is a partner in a small-time law firm in Belize, a small not very rich Central American country squeezed between Guatemala and Mexico. His principal business is setting up and servicing offshore companies and bank accounts for British, Russians and whoever else wanted to hide their money or assets.Concealing the ownership of businesses and property behind opaque locally incorporated firms, for the purpose of tax avoidance, evasion and...
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The Fitzwilliams Foundation, a London think tank, engages Michael D'Arcy, the overeducated son of a well-connected Irish diplomat, to gather information for a report on the trafficking of tropical timber from Papua New Guinea's rain forests to China.His girlfriend Lucy Wang, the daughter of a Shanghai tycoon and property developer, has returned home and the idea of heading east pleases Michael.When Michael arrives in Papua he learns how rich Chinese-Malaysian...
3) Secrets
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This is the story of an adventure told through the eyes of Michael D'Arcy and his Uncle John Ennis, two different generations, separated by half a century. A chronicle of collapse, the story of our headlong gallop towards disaster, of the destruction being waged by shortsighted or corrupt politicians, unscrupulous men and their businesses, on our environment, our planet, our home, our only home, in this dark, silent, hostile universe.Doesn't concern...