{
    "id": 489564,
    "slug": "discounted-by-a-lightning-strike-ardi-kaars",
    "nstc": null,
    "title": "Discounted By a Lightning Strike!",
    "subtitle": null,
    "collection_title": null,
    "collection_part_number": null,
    "annotation": null,
    "description": "Kaylon, a journalist and master student at the height of the COVID pandemic of 2020, discovers the owner of Paris' most prestigious hedge fund by accident, during his vacation in France with Sofie, his girlfriend. He starts off as an intern at this firm, which goes by the name of Hypervestments. Over the course of time he develops his professional skills, \u00e1nd he discovers, together with a (former) fellow student, how a well connected group of criminal oligarchs is exploiting the Eurozone during the COVID crisis as well as the years that follow.<br />\n<br />\nSome members of the criminal syndicate are from democracies within Europe, others from dictatorships outside of Europe. Through their actions, they are closing in on the European societies in which they operate. Will Kaylon and several other financial insiders and non-insiders be able to stop these criminals, before the syndicate commits a 'financial coup' with lasting damage using a combination of technological refinement, shadow-finance and a criminal mindset? The concept of a free society may be hanging by just a thread!",
    "additional_content": null,
    "bestseller_60": null,
    "imprint": null,
    "language_code": "eng",
    "original_language_code": null,
    "page_count": 398,
    "duration_seconds": null,
    "publication_date_first": "2024-05-27",
    "publication_date_latest": "2024-05-27",
    "cover_url": null,
    "editions": [
        {
            "isbn": "9789464819588",
            "product_form": "BC"
        }
    ],
    "ratings_count": 0,
    "read_count": 0,
    "review_count": 0,
    "favorite_count": 0,
    "reading_status_read_count": 0,
    "reading_status_reading_count": 0,
    "reading_status_want_to_read_count": 0,
    "rating_average": null,
    "ratings_distribution": {
        "1": 0,
        "2": 0,
        "3": 0,
        "4": 0,
        "5": 0
    },
    "created_at": "2025-09-19T14:33:28+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-11-05T00:43:11+00:00",
    "publisher": {
        "id": 6663,
        "slug": "pumbonl",
        "name": "Pumbo.nl",
        "created_at": "2025-09-19T12:34:41+00:00",
        "updated_at": "2025-09-19T15:13:47+00:00"
    },
    "contributors": [
        {
            "id": 303823,
            "slug": "ardi-kaars",
            "key_names": "Kaars",
            "names_before_key": "Ardi",
            "prefix_to_key": null,
            "contributor_role": "A01",
            "readable_contributor_role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "genres": [],
    "subjects": [
        {
            "scheme_identifier": "32",
            "scheme_version": null,
            "main_subject": false,
            "subject_code": "332",
            "created_at": "2025-09-19T14:33:28+00:00",
            "updated_at": "2025-09-19T14:33:28+00:00"
        }
    ],
    "campaigns": []
}