The Big Deal

This is a true story, as well as a novel set against the world of private lending and financing. The protagonist, Zhang Yong, may be an ordinary man, but he is ambitious and determined to make money and get rich. Through loans and financing, he builds a business from nothing. He takes huge risks, merges and restructures companies, forms alliances, and gobbles up smaller players. In the fierce world of business, he plots his moves carefully, growing a small trade into a major enterprise and a small company into a powerful one, until at last he builds his own business empire.

Like a textbook, this book pulls back the layers on the hidden dealings and dark secrets of the financial and business worlds. It lays bare the falsehood and ugliness, as well as the sincerity and goodness, that human nature reveals in the face of profit. The story is full of twists and turns, with a complex and unusual plot that is both unexpected and entirely plausible.

The online novel Big Deals was originally titled The Golden Touch.