(Last weak, a CNN program focused on the foreclosure problem. Indeed, according to some experts, the mortgage debt default issue is as significant as the US Treasury bond problem in terms of scale.
"THE BRASS WALL" by David Kocieniewski was published in the U.S. in 2003, but its translated version was issued last February in Japan.
It is nonfiction of "the betrayal of undercover detective #4126" who investigated an arson case in which a veteran officer of the New York Fire Department was killed. The detective pursued its culprits who burnt down their own old building with apartment houses and shops in it.
But, the true enemy of the undercover detective was defective management and degraded senior officials of the New York Police Department who obstructed the investigation behind the scene or using an official power.
It is extremely interesting to see how NYPD in 1990's was functioning outwardly and internally. But, the era was changing from crimes on the street to those in the cyber space, as the story implies and we have actually experienced.
Finally, I wonder if the present foreclosure problem prevailing in the U.S. might in the worst case trigger an arson case for gaining insurance money, like the nonfiction story written by a reporter of the New York Times.)
"...Then I Will Pull You out of the Nile, with All the Fish Sticking to You..."