Tariq Ali, one of the most productive radical writers in the world today, wrote an account of the rise and fall of the BCCI. Ali, whose subjects range from fiction to sharp, polemical essays on history and politics and scripts for both stage and screen, produced two documentaries on the Bank for Channel Four but, as many depositors and other victims of the Bank were involved in litigation, this script was never offered to any company and remained hidden in ali's archives. A few years before the collapse of the Bank, Ali also had, in a series of unsigned articles for the New Statesman, warned of the shaky foundations on which the Bank was built. The BCCI sued the New Statesman and a new and inexperienced Editor caved in and apologized. Ali's script appears for the first time in this volume and the New Statesman articles are included as Appendices.