Follow The Money: A Cautionary Tale of Banking's Trojan Horse by Abdassamad Clarke,

‘Follow the money’, the dictum of both the detective and the investigative journalist, necessarily implies that a crime has been committed. The dimensions of that crime in this case are simply so staggering that it is almost impossible for modern people to see; can the fish see the water in which it swims? The advice to the young man and woman in these circumstances is exactly the opposite: do not follow the money—because it is the very epitome of the deception being perpetrated—but by all means seek wealth, never forgetting its definition by the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him): “Wealth is the heart’s wealth.” This book maps the territory between these two extremes, and traces generally untaught historical events to disclose a phenomenon that once seen could change your life. Within living memory, narratives of happier, more hopeful, lives have been replaced by disenchantment, and by a growing servitude to an increasingly machine-like world through an addiction to the fuel of that world: money, or so it is commonly called. In fact, as Clarke shows, money is nothing but debt, which produces an indebtedness that we all share, and—who would credit it?—one which we have to pay for.