{"id":138,"date":"2017-06-08T01:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2017-06-08T03:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T01:29:11","slug":"comment-jai-liquide-le-siecle-editions-des-equateurs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/books\/comment-jai-liquide-le-siecle-editions-des-equateurs\/","title":{"rendered":"How I killed the century (tentative title)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-3 col-sm-4 col-xs-6\">\n<div class=\"card card-mini card-testimonial card-plain\">\n<div class=\"card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img alignnone\" title=\"Parution France\" src=\"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/vignettes-liquideLeSiecle-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-sm-8 col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"card-info\"><span class=\"title\">\u00c9ditions des Equateurs, 2010<\/span><br \/>\n<em>J\u2019ai Lu, 2011<\/em><br \/>\nPrix Col\u00e8re du Pr\u00e9sent \/ Jean Amila Meckert 2011<br \/>\nNot published in english BUT available in full for consideration.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-sm-custom\" href=\"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/How-I-killed-the-century-1-4-Nov-2015.pdf\" target=\"blanck\">Download the 4 first chapters in english<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierre, a plumber\u2019s son from Clermont-Ferrand, finds refuge from his dull childhood in the world of mathematics.<br \/>\nNow a king of \u201cquant\u201d in a major French bank, he creates flash trading programs that make billions. His personal life is a disaster. His daughter\u2019s anorexia, his father\u2019s death, September 11th and his peculiar relationship with an endearing prostitute force him to face up to what he has become: a machine.<br \/>\nA formidable septuagenarian woman, supposedly the head of the Bilderberg Group &#8211; a secret organization whose aim is to ensure America\u2019s domination &#8211; summons him to New York. There can be no successors to the American Empire \u2013and above all not China. She aks Pierre to launch an algorithm she cooked on the financial markets. He wonders: what if, after all, a terrorist attack on the markets (one of the FBI\u2019s most feared scenarios) was the only way to win back his life?<\/p>\n<p>After her first novel Une Fille dans la Ville (Les \u00c9quateurs, 2006), Flore Vasseur carries out an autopsy on the oligarchy of the financial world, trapped in its own sophistication and morbid dogmas. The book\u2019s gripping and realistic scenario describes what capitalism\u2019s next step could hold for the future.<br \/>\n\u201cImpossible to put down before the very end.\u201d Paris-Match<br \/>\n\u201cFlore Vasseur again proves that she knows how to probe our times like no one else. In doing so, she finds herself at the forefront of today\u2019s literature.\u201d Le Monde<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The revenge of fiction on the economy<\/em>\u201d Le Figaro.<br \/>\n\u201c<em>Flore Vasseur nails down the finance forces that rule the world. In today\u2019s world, this is as instructive as it is brilliant.<\/em>\u201d Elle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not published in english but the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/nieuws\/2015\/04\/03\/dave-eggers-1481285-a1286657\" target=\"blanck\">Dave Eggers,<\/a> one of my favorite author, read it !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9ditions des Equateurs, 2010 J\u2019ai Lu, 2011 Prix Col\u00e8re du Pr\u00e9sent \/ Jean Amila Meckert 2011 Not published in english BUT available in full for consideration. Download the 4 first chapters in english Pierre, a<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/books\/comment-jai-liquide-le-siecle-editions-des-equateurs\/\"> Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"parent":120,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/229"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florevasseur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}