Fever the Dark Mystery of the Bre X Gold by Wells, Jennifer (1998) Hardcover

With a fiction writer's sense of timing and colour, Jennifer Wells spins a compelling tale that takes us into the very heart of the Bre-X mystery and into the lives of the people entangled in this most extraordinary chain of events. From the hungry, desperate gambler John Felderhof, to the small-time hustler David Walsh, from slick corporate barons like Peter Munk, to razor-sharp good 'ol boy, Jim Bob Moffat, from shadowy, yet astonishingly powerful Indonesian tycoon Bob Hasan to impoverished Dayak panners, the characters of Fever walk off the page as they play out a story of hope, greed, belief and desperation.

Much more than a brilliantly paced retelling of the fraud of the century, Fever is an enduring moral fable, a human drama that resonates with meaning in a world in which so many hope for gold at the end of a rainbow.