We are thrilled to announce that the Hungarian rights  to Kari Nars’ international bestseller Swindling Billions have been acquired by HVG Publishers. Over 75,000 copies sold – English massmarket paperback to be published in January 2013!

Rights list:

WORLD ENGLISH / Marshall Cavendish
BRAZIL / WORLD PORTUGUESE / Editora Gutenberg Ltda.
CHINA (Simplified) / Law Press China
FINLAND, Tammi
HUNGARY /HVG Publishers
GERMANY / Wiley-VCH
KOREA / Hanbit Biz
ROMANIA / Hardcover & Paperback

“The book has credentials to entertain.  This seems to have been Nars’s intention… – It [the book] is an ABC on how to be smart when someone offers an easy way to get rich.”
– Valor Econômico

Dr. Kari Nars’ distinguished career in world finance includes senior banking positions in Washington D.C., London, Paris and Helsinki. He and his wife spend their time in Helsinki and Provence.

Rights to Kari Nars’  Money and Happiness has been sold in Brasil to Editora Gutenberg.  Previously rights are sold in Finland to Tammi and to Schildts (Finland-Swedish).

Is money the key to our happiness? Why, in the current climate of wealth and prosperity, do more and more people fall prey to stress, burnout, depression, alcoholism, divorce, or even suicide? Why do millions of children, young people and families feel increasingly bad by the day?

Please ask the Agency for full English text of Swindling Billions and other reading materials in English.

The Brazilian Portuguese edition of Dr Kari Nars‘ Swindling Billions, Golpes Bilionários, has been published by Gutenberg (Grupo Editorial Autêntica) to excellent reviews. Brazil’s most important financial newspaper Econômica Valor praises Dr Nars’ book as a timely and entertaining chronicle of the biggest money fraudsters of our times. Click here to read the full article!

Also the leading business weekly, Istoe Dinheiro, recommends Golpes Bilionários to its readers: istoedinheiro.com.br.

Rights of Swindling Billions (Miten miljoonia huijataan, Tammi 2009) have now been sold to six languages: Chinese (Simplified), English (World), German, Korean, Portuguese (World) and Romanian. The book has sold nearly 100,000 copies worldwide to date.

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Hanbit Biz has released the Korean edition of Dr. Kari Nars’ international bestseller Swindling Billions. Rights to the title were sold to Hanbit Biz in March 2011, and the book was published in November 2011.

Rights to Swindling Billions have been sold to several major world languages: World English rights to Marshall & Cavendish, World Portuguese rights to the Brazilian publisher Editora Gutenberg, German rights to Wiley-VCH, Chinese rights to Law Press China and Romanian rights to Hardcover & Paperback. Following the great success in the English language market, Marshall & Cavendish will be releasing a mass-market paperback edition of the English book in March 2012.

Please ask for the English and German texts!

We are delighted to announce that the World Portuguese rights to Dr. Kari Nars’ best-selling title Swindling Billions (Miten miljoonia huijataan) have been sold to Editora Gutenberg/Grupo Editorial Autentica.

Rights to Swindling Billions have previously been sold to several major world languages: World English rights to Marshall & Cavendish, German rights to Wiley-VCH, Chinese rights to Law Press China and Korean rights to Hanbit-Biz, as well as Romanian rights to Hardcover& Paperback. Brazilian readers will get to read the book in Autumn 2012.

Nars recently returned from Singapore, where he was invited to talk about his books at the Singapore Writers Festival, a multi-lingual literary festival featuring the world’s major literary talents.

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Dr. Kari Nars, one of Finland’s most respected financial experts and author of Swindling Billions (Miten miljoonia huijataan, Tammi 2009), is participating in the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF). Held on 22.-30.9.2011, SWF is a multi-lingual literary festival featuring the world’s major literary talents. On 29 October, Kari Nars will discuss Swindling Billions in a Meet the Author session, and on 30 October he will participate in a panel discussion called Measuring Happiness.

Swindling Billions is a thrilling read about the most unscrupulous swindles of mankind. Rights to the title have been sold to five languages so far: World English/Marshall Cavendish, German/Wiley-VCH, Korean/Hanbit-Biz, Romanian/Hardcover & Paperback and  Simplified Chinese/Law Press China. The English, German and Romanian editions have been published in 2011 and the Korean and Chinese editions will be published in 2012.

“As one of the most respected financial experts in Europe, Kari Nars presents a fascinating angle for swindlers´  motives… To make sure you don´t become a sorry victim to a clever crook, don´t miss Nars´ reality check for staying clear of swindlers.”  – Jim Banting: Free Press Release

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English edition of Kari Nars’ SWINDLING BILLIONS (Miten miljoonia huijataan) has been published by Marshall Cavendish to a great success in March.

Non-fiction publisher VCH-Wiley will publish the German edition by Autumn 2011.

In recent deals the Korean rights were acquired by Hanbit Biz, Simplified Chinese rights by Law Press China and Romanian rights by Hardcover & Paperback.

Ten of the world’s most interesting financial swindles are examined by Dr. Kari Nars in this unique book. He reviews the nature and working methods of some of the great money fraudsters: what kind of people they really are, their thought processes, how they succeeded in cheating thousands of wealthy people, and what kind of people are liable to fall victim to such scams. Do they at all regret their nasty deeds?

Please ask for the English text and reading copies!