Offshore Islands

by John Francis Kinsella

Forces driven by market frenzy and the explosion of Internet technologies created phenomenal wealth in virtual money. At the same time inconceivably large sums of money were derived from crime and drugs with criminal organisations laundering their ill gotten gains via the world’s banking and financial institutions. Virtual reality was never so real and never so ephemeral as on offshore islands, amongst them Ireland and Cuba, where Tony Arrowsmith and his Irish cousin, Pat Kennedy, are drawn...