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A NARATIV INVESTIGATION · THREE BOOKS

The Greatest Heist

The true story of how Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and their Russian network infected capitalism, crashed the economy and captured the presidency.

The theft
of America.

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BOOK ONE — The Network

10 chapters

A Manhattan party in 1981 launched a network. Robert Maxwell moved Soviet money west. Jeffrey Epstein learned to hide it. It took the KGB twelve years to build Donald Trump into an asset. This is how they did it.

  1. 01How Reagan's Shadow Network Created Trump and Epstein
  2. 02Infecting Capitalism
  3. 03Parallel Networks
  4. 04The House of Broken Friendships
  5. 05The Four Men Who Stole America
  6. 06The Concorde Deception
  7. 07The Cultivation of Donald Trump
  8. 08The $50 Billion Russian Laundromat
  9. 09The $450 Million Windfall That Saved Trump
  10. 10Too Big To Fail

BOOK TWO — The Crash

Prologue + 10 chapters · 2 more coming

Ohio, 1995. Four men came together to rescue a failing real-estate dream. Thirteen years later, the same four men sat at the center of the worst crash in a century. 2008 didn't take their money. It delivered it.

  1. PROThe Inside Story of 2008: How They Did It
  2. 01The Gathering
  3. 02The Arrest
  4. 03The Quiet
  5. 04The Storm
  6. 05The Lair
  7. 06The Bear
  8. 07The Vault
  9. 08The Extraction
  10. 09The Bomb
  11. 10The Trigger

BOOK THREE — Atomic Spy

2 chapters

In 1954, Robert Maxwell reached four American nuclear physicists inside 48 hours, and the FBI's own files recorded it. Decades later, Epstein built a ranch in the New Mexico desert. Now the state is investigating what happened there.

  1. 01Atomic Spy
  2. 02Zorro Ranch

About the author

Zev Shalev is an Emmy-nominated, Murrow Award-winning journalist and the founder of Narativ. He worked at CBS News, Global, CBC, CTV and Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions before launching Narativ in December 2016. He has reported on the Trump–Epstein network ever since, working from court filings, bank records, FBI files and an archive of more than 173,000 documents. He is writing The Greatest Heist in real time, while the ending is still playing out.