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David Walsh (11 August 1945 – 4 June 1998) was a Canadian businessman in the oil and gas and mining industries. Biography Walsh was founder and CEO of the Canadian mining company Bre-X, which was involved in one of the largest stock market scandals in Canadian history. Although Walsh had been oblivious to or dismissive of warning signs before the outbreak of the scandal, he called in RCMP investigators once the fraud was identified, and assisted the RCMP in their criminal investigation. Before the Bre-X fraud, Walsh had run several successful oil and gas companies with properties throughout the United States and Canada and had been a stock broker, trust company officer, and portfolio manager. He died of an apparent aneurysm in 1998, suffered at his home in the Bahamas. In popular culture The Bre-X scandal inspired the 2016 film Gold, in which Matthew McConaughey plays Kenny Wells, who is based on Walsh. References Bre-X: Gold Today, Gone Tomorrow : Anatomy of the Busang Swindle. The Northern Miner. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55257-003-6. . Discover the David Walsh popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Walsh books.

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Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery
W.J. Burley
A highprofile murder investigation for Wycliffe, in Cornwall's heartland.Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from...
Smashed Hopes
Dave Walsh
Humanity has never been known for subtlety... now is no different. After years of peace, things are unraveling. Drake may be the most powerful human that’s ever lived, imbued with...
Breaking The Chain
Willy Voet
On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part ...
Until Next Weekend
Rachel Marks
THE UNFORGETTABLE AND FEELGOOD NEW NOVEL THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH AND CRY'Wise and wonderful. I adored it!' MIRANDA DICKINSON'Heartbreaking, heartwarming, perfect!' ROSIE GOODWIN'Y...
The Looking-Glass Conference
Godfrey Blunden
A brilliantly funny satire on modern diplomacy.The Far Eastern republic of Inevitable Khaos is at war with the repulic of Incredible Khaos and an international conference is gather...
A Rough Ride
Paul Kimmage
In A Rough Ride, Paul Kimmage gives a devastatingly frank account of what life is really like in the world of professional cycling. In tracing his mixed fortunes, Kimmage describes...
The Matriarch
Adrian Tame
The matriarch of Australia’s most violent and notorious criminal family, and allegedly the inspiration for the awardwinning film Animal Kingdom, tells her side of the story. Kathy ...
A Good Bad Boy
Margaret Wappler
An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210.Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 9021...
Twelve Summers
Adam Zwar
Cricket fans, where were you during the disaster that was the 2013 Ashes? Adam Zwar was making a documentary about bodyline and filming a stunt that involved Brett Lee bowling boun...
Wycliffe and the Guilt-Edged Alibi
W.J. Burley
A family feud leads to murder and Superintendent Wycliffe is on the case...Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was quite a...
Cracked Palace
Dave Walsh
There's no stopping the Void now. The gate has been cracked open. Drake and Valencia spent years trying to prevent the coming of the allpowerful alien race known as the Void, only...
The Adventurous Gardener
Christopher Lloyd
'The best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times' GUARDIAN'Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita SackvilleWest as one of the major fi...
When Friday Comes
James Montague
'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to foot...
Serial
Jim Lusby
'This is the real Ireland, where pleasure and pain are inextricably linked' Val McDermidA brilliant breakthrough crime novel from one of the most respected names in the business......
The Well-Chosen Garden
Christopher Lloyd
The perfect book on how to make your garden the best it can be.'Essential reading' Country Life'Funny, encouraging, informative' Sunday TimesWould your garden, small or large, in t...
Battlefield 4
Peter Grimsdale
The explosive, actionpacked prequel to EA's megaselling video game, BATTLEFIELD 4.It's 3am and 20 below zero on the ChineseNorth Korean border. Shanghaibased CIA operative Laszlo K...
Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place
W.J. Burley
On the beautiful, tranquil Scilly Isles, a brutal murder is uncovered...There was no doubt at all that the girl was dead. The front of her skull and her facial bones had been splin...
Taking the Fall
A.P. McCoy
From champion jockey A.P. McCoy comes a tense and utterly gripping racing thriller.Duncan Claymore could have it all. He's one of the country's up and coming young jockeys and this...
The Making of MONA
Adrian Franklin
In January 2011, MONA was officially opened to the public. It was lauded as the most extraordinary cultural event for Australia since the opening of the Sydney Opera House. David W...
The Rodchenkov Affair
Grigory Rodchenkov
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it allOne of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who sh...
The Cymage
Dave Walsh
With each cough, death looms closer. A cure out of reach for a humble monk living in the desert. New meaning enters his life when the most powerful leader on Andlios discovers A...
Oranges and Sunshine
Margaret Humphreys
Also published as Empty Cradles.In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the...
The Day I Left You
Caroline Bishop
For fans of One Day and In Five Years comes an epic love story about Greta and Henry, who by chance meet in 1982 East Berlin and find a love that’s meant to last a lifetimeuntil Gr...
The Cycling Anthology
Lionel Birnie & Ellis Bacon
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CYCLING IN FIVE VOLUMESVolume One of The Cycling Anthology, a collection of the best writing on cycling by some of the sport's leading writers. Between them, ...
Unexpected
Chris Thomas & Elizabeth Smart
The backstory of finding Elizabeth Smart and how growing up in the Mormon culture pushed the author to develop the exact kind of intuition that was needed to help manage Elizabeth’...
Charco Harbour
Godfrey Blunden
The story of the legendary Captain James Cook.It is 1768. War has broken out in Europe and the British Admiralty wants a base in the Western Pacific.So Captain James Cook and a com...
Narrowing the Field
A.P. McCoy
MURDER, RIVALRY AND REVENGE...'Fast paced and unbeatable.' The LadyEverything seems to be going right for brilliant young jockey Duncan Claymore. A career on the up, a beautiful wi...
That Jewish Thing
Amber Crewe
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JANE WENHAMJONES AWARD FOR COMEDY IN THE 2022 ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARDSThe new romantic comedy from the author of Adult Virgins Anonymous.Tamsyn Rutman is at yet an...
INTERGALACTIC BASTARD
Dave Walsh
The galaxy’s mightiest warriors laughed at humans entering their arena... until they met the bastard. Coop Sabre, along with his exploding barbed wire bat, Guy, has turned the gal...
A Lifetime of Seasons
Christopher Lloyd
'He was the best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times' GUARDIAN'Infuriating, irascible ... a brilliant gardener and a brilliant writer' Monty Don, ...
Stanislav Grof, LSD Pioneer
Brigitte Grof
Celebrating the groundbreaking life’s work of Stanislav Grof, MD, pioneer in psychedelic research and transpersonal psychology Features an extended interview with Stan Grof, explor...
Ein letzter erster Augenblick
Holly Miller
Würdest du dich für die große Liebe entscheiden, wenn du wüsstest, wie sie endet?Seit seiner Kindheit lebt Joel als Einzelgänger, der niemanden in sein Herz lässt. Nicht weil er da...
A Room on the Route
Godfrey Blunden
This is the story of lives under the constant scrutiny of the N.K.V.D.Here is a monumental novel that shows how the fantastic Communist willtopower has led to the enslavement of th...