Currency War is an international thriller that only Lawrence B。 Lindsey – economist， adviser to presidents， and Washington insider – could tell。

 

Is it possible to wage war without weapons？ Is it possible to win a war without firing a shot？ These are the questions facing Ben Coleman after he finds himself a first-hand witness to a bank run in Beijing that ends up being brutally suppressed by the Chinese military。

Coleman， chairman of the U。S。 Federal Reserve under President Will Turner， realizes this is a harbinger of things to come… a suspicion confirmed by Li Xue， his counterpart in the Chinese government。 Li is part of a modernizing movement that is locked in confrontation with a hardline faction headed by General Deng Wenxi。 Deng sees the U。S。 in a weak economic position and plans to make China the global superpower by replacing the U。S。 dollar with the yuan as the world's reserve currency。

So begins a currency war between the United States and China – a war fought in dollars and yuan against a landscape of shifting international alliances and political infighting on both sides。 Coleman's marriage is even compromised when his wife – a beautiful， retired MI-6 agent from England – is drawn back into the game of spycraft and intelligence gathering。

As the bloodless war rages， readers are taken on a roller coaster ride through the inner sanctums of power in the world – from the upstairs residence of the White House to the board room of the People's Bank of China; from a high society dinner party in London to the birth of a Political Action Committee at an exclusive Virginia resort; and from the bedrooms of the elite to the forbidden fleshpots of Laos。