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Today, Robert P. Smith is a story in the world of fund. Part adventurer and part economical warrior, this Indiana Jones of the financial world was an progress man for the causes of globalization, having spent more than thirty years journeying through five continents, investing risky securities in the world's most downtrodden economies. So tenuous was his operation therefore covert the orders, that an over night fluctuation in a country's currency rate could mean the difference between a spectacular income or a destructive loss. Today, the trade in rising market debt is worth more than five billion us dollars each day, but it was virtually non-existent when Smith, a one-time selections lawyer, pioneered the business in the late 1970s. "Riches Among the Ruins" is the outstanding storyline of Robert Smith's search to generate profits doing the riskiest kind of business. We are in his area as he vacations through the treacherous and exhilarating world of the debt trader, dodging bullets and roadside bombs in post-Saddam Iraq, and risking his life on the chaotic streets of Nigeria. As he engages in a battle of wills with entrepreneurs in Istanbul, and manages to lose millions immediately in the ruins of the post-Soviet Russian market, we experience all the thrill and terror that accompanies making a lot of money in emerging markets. At once adrenaline-fueled and utterly compelling, this is actually the gripping story of one man's search for bundle of money where others fear to tread.
