What this is
A forty-year extraction, reported chapter by chapter
It starts at a Manhattan party in 1981 and it does not stop at 2008.
Zev Shalev has spent years on primary documents — court filings, wire ledgers, depositions, flight logs, unsealed emails — tracing how a network built two men, used them, and took the money out. Three books so far. The reporting is ongoing.
Jes Staley testified in August 2026 that he fed Jeffrey Epstein JPMorgan's confidential information straight through the 2008 crash, and that he would do it again. Book 2 had already told you why he would.
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Seven chapters, no subscription
Start at the top and read straight down. These are the opening chapters of Book 1 and the way into Book 2.
- BOOK 1 · 1How Reagan's Shadow Network Created Trump and EpsteinFree
- BOOK 1 · 2Infecting CapitalismFree
- BOOK 1 · 3Parallel NetworksFree
- BOOK 1 · 4The House of Broken FriendshipsFree
- BOOK 2 · PROThe Inside Story of 2008: How They Did ItFree
- BOOK 2 · 1The GatheringFree
- BOOK 2 · 2The ArrestFree
The investigation
Three books
Book 1 — The Network
Ten chapters. 1981 to the eve of the crash. How the network was assembled and who it built.
Book 2 — The Crash
Prologue and nine chapters. 2008 itself — the bank, the broker, the extraction.
Book 3 — Zorro Ranch
In progress. New Mexico, the bomb, and what is buried under the ranch.
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