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Anna Schlegel

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Born

in Moscow, Russian Federation

February 25

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http://TheSleeper.club/

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Thriller, Fiction, Suspense

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“...The Sleeper Series is a modern, fast-paced spin on British Intelligence operations that offers an entirely different perspective on why intelligence people become defectors.”
- MSNBC

“...spy novel, promising to unravel the tangled web of a strange couple caught in the middle of an espionage game of British intelligence.”
- The Huffington Post

“...a thriller that begins with a couple's discussion about intelligence processes and evolves to a cat-and-mouse game played out across the streets of Europe.”
- Midwest Book Review

Why do I know so much of the Intelligence? It must have come from between the bed sheets, and not just this much. Victor returned to Moscow after a few years of work as a financial expert. He was more of a moneyman than a s “...The Sleeper Series is a modern, fast-paced spin on British Intelligence operations that offers an entirely different perspective on why intelligence people become defectors.”
- MSNBC

“...spy novel, promising to unravel the tangled web of a strange couple caught in the middle of an espionage game of British intelligence.”
- The Huffington Post

“...a thriller that begins with a couple's discussion about intelligence processes and evolves to a cat-and-mouse game played out across the streets of Europe.”
- Midwest Book Review

Why do I know so much of the Intelligence? It must have come from between the bed sheets, and not just this much. Victor returned to Moscow after a few years of work as a financial expert. He was more of a moneyman than a special service agent, even more he was a swindler. He became a raider like so many others, during those years. He used to have both good luck and failure in bank seizures, in which he lost money. I imperceptibly turned to be just the same like him.
These books are written from an adventurer’s perspective. There are no good guys, since those good guys have no chance of attracting a female. Women want bastards.

Why read my books? I’ve got the undeniable strength of being a Russian author, which means that I’m writing about the Russian Intelligence without using much fiction.
Of course, these are just mere fiction novels, a kind of multi-twist mind game; yet I’m describing events the way they could have touched me in reality. So these books actually represent my "might-have-been" by seizing the fact that I could have lived a number of alternative lives. Understandably, one life is enough for me: my behind would hardly stand more adventures. I’m writing about things that I find interesting. I’ve only read a few books of spy fiction - for the most part, they are deadly boring.

I was born in Moscow. I studied at the Moscow State University at the Philosophical facility. I got a PhD in philosophy and stayed without work and without money. The financial crisis began. Some years I looked for a work, but took it easy. I became a securities trader in an investment company by chance. And then came the default in 1998. I was without work again.
This was my best time. I became the financial middleman for off-market private transactions. I had nothing. I had been looking for too-big deals. But then there was a time when it was quite possible for me to be the middleman in the sale of a Libyan oil tanker or for the sale of an aircraft abroad. I got sick of conducting multi-million dollar transactions and lost all sense of reality.
I met Victor. Capturing the bank was in my sights. The insider of the bank was its vice-president. I write about his capture almost verbatim. Before leaving, he gave me his three passports… So I do not know his real name. There were no closed doors for him. He had friends from the federal agency for government communication and information from the board of directors of Deutsche Bank. All kinds of people.

Years passed. Victor is long gone. And there are fewer middlemen.
I feel myself to be on the way out. My whole generation is on the way out as well; those who are described as robbing the country.
I like those who robbed the country, and I’m pleased about how it was done. They were really talented financiers; nothing worse than the financiers on Wall Street. They left the country and took the money with them.
Since then, Moscow’s air did not smell of millions any longer. But, it seemed to me, it was still in the depths of my house between a pile of white shirts. Now there are no more financial middlemen. The young have gotten jobs first. They receive a salary at the end of the month, and seem to have already forgotten the smell of crazy millions. It’s like being drunk. There’s a dizziness from it … They did not want to breathe this air. They did not want to poison their lives. They earned their money. They had wives, children, dogs, and cars, ...more

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	The Dead Bank Diary 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I can smell the street air and say that the market has changed. It smells also sharply as smells the fresh bread from a bakery in the frost.”
― Anna Schlegel, The Dead Bank Diary

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“I was out of work while all around smelled millions, even the air outside. It was an unforgettable smell of public debt, oilfields, gold, bank guarantees, diamond ... I wanted to breathe in the air of easy cash Moscow, to revel and roll in this air. I can feel the smell of money in the wind on my face. This air was used to make up funds overnight, to make a fortune, to go rack and ruin and grew rich again. It was going free across the wreckage of the sold out Soviet empire.”
― Anna Schlegel, The Dead Bank Diary

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