Short Sold (The Arab Heist)

What Happened to Colonel Gaddafi's Billions?

Set in the backdrop of the Libyan Civil War, Short Sold is a novel drawn from real events about a London banker who cannot believe his good fortune at the fall of the Gaddafi regime. Jonathan Penney – short sells stocks, short sells currencies, short sells people, and short sells countries. As the dust settled after the rebellion ended and the rebuilding begun, the reality was that the billions of dollars needed to reconstruct Libya had simply vanished, and the people of Libya will asked, ‘where has the money gone?’ An uncomfortable question that will resonate across the Arab World, when the Arab Spring ends. After the Arab Spring, a new word will enter the common lexicon – The Arab Heist.