Great read.<p>If someone is interested in similar text, though fiction, I liked Clive Cussler's "The Chase" (novel): <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(novel)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(novel)</a> (it's about a former bank robber who founded his own bank, in San Francisco at that timeframe til 1906)