Ch. 1. Introduction : the bank of New York and Bruce Rappaport -- Ch. 2. The Indonesian affair : spies, lies, and oil -- Ch. 3. The underworld of banking and financial fraud : inter maritime and castle banks -- Ch. 4. The Antigua experience : crooked banks and narcotraffickers -- Ch. 5. Rappaport at work : Iraq, Oman, and Iran/Contra -- Ch. 6. The Bank of New York and Rappaport : together at last -- Ch. 7. Moving hot money : Riggs National Bank and Valmet S.A. -- Ch. 8. The criminal element : Benex and the Red Mafia -- Ch. 9. Inkombank and BONY : the Rashomon effect and the Klein hypotheses -- Ch. 10. Conclusion : the crisis in Russian banking and the character of the Bank of New York