Introducing

William Squibb & the Rogue Traders

Trainee William Squibb is visited by the ghost of an Eighteenth Century Royal Navy privateer and told he must do his duty and save the world from a mysterious French billionaire at the helm of RPX Corporation and secret front for a megalomaniac voodoo cult. William must engage a reclusive Templar Knight assassin, develop trustworthy allies, investigate his father’s suspicious Vatican bank linked car accident whilst he tries to hold down his not so simple day job trading commodity futures, which he studied really really hard for.

William learns that a Cold War of powerful and dangerous forces surrounds him and he must fight by any means necessary if the Founding Fathers’ sensationally scandalous secret is to remain hidden and he and western civilisation are to survive.

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An animated action adventure e-graphic novel with an up tempo fast paced thrilling plot line, littered with colourful and humorous characters. The book was written with a dual purpose of entertaining readers whilst surreptitiously engaging in an exploration of economic history and classical economic theory.

Key focus

An elucidation of the worlds financial markets founded on Europe’s history of commodity trading and empire building during the Napoleonic wars, which shaped the modern day USA into a world superpower. William Squibb’s story will explain how Britain’s maritime history is integral to the development of the global financial system.

Understanding

The Rogue Traders gives a colourful explanation of the philosophy of Adam Smith and his “Invisible Hand” hypothesis of liberal market efficiency, whilst offering an insight into how the City of London became the world’s financial centre. Classical demand and supply theory, economies of scale and comparative advantage hypothesis are outlined through a captivating sugar market trade. The reader will gain and insight into how historical British merchant companies evolved into global investment banks.

Read On Any Device

This e-book is designed to be read on a smart phone or tablet computer. Each page is separately animated to help “mimic” popular social media video platform formats to capture the smart phone audience.

William Squibb & the Rogue Traders is the first novel by Thomas Kujawa. It plunges the reader deep into the heart of the trading world where intrigue, double-dealing and adventure await around every corner.

Explore the world William faces in this refreshing and engaging graphic novel.

Behind the story

Economics isn’t prioritised in the national curriculum despite being relevant to nearly every important decision faced in life. Family, friends, children of friends and most transparently young adults assigned to me on work experience placements in recent years have frequently highlighted how little exposure basic economic concepts are given during secondary school education. Despite being on the periphery of schooling priorities over 30,000 UK sixteen years every year choose to study A’ level economics without any prior formal exposure to the subject and over one million US undergraduates will choose an “Economics 101” course from a similar starting point as many young minds who crave insight to economics have been “put off” by the subject’s plethora of textbooks lacking an appropriate and appealing contextualisation.

Reviews & feedback

Kind Words About the Book

What a fantastic read a real rip roaring adventure in a world I was very unfamiliar with which was laid out in a real simple format that I could understand. I learnt a lot too on how the markets work and the historical events that lead to the world we know . This book works on so many levels a great read hopefully we will see another outing for William soon.

John Harrison

Tom has found a unique way of turning the complicated into child's play! Engaging, enlightening, captivating and humorous are not words I ever expected to associate with the dry, distant world of Commodity trading.

Kate Bentley

I never really knew what my Dad did as a job. After sitting down and reading this book with him I now understand a lot more than I did.

Sienna Hasler Aged 11

Meet the Author

A Passion for Storytelling

Thomas Kujawa

I wrote William Squibb & The Rogue Traders whilst working in the commodity markets of the City of London for the last 25 years principally because of a Hollywood movie I saw when I was 14 years old. Back then books were only printed on paper and the cutting edge accessible technology for teenagers was VHS home video plugged into a chunky tube colour television, if you were lucky enough to have one. I watched and rewatched Trading Places many times to fully understand Winthorp and Vantine’s financial scheme and increasingly longed to work in a company like Duke & Duke the more I watched. The film prompted me to study economics at A level and later at the University of Manchester. Luckily for me in the mid to late 1980’s the City of London experienced Mrs Thatcher’s “Big Bang” financial industry revolution and access to a fascinating career became more accessible to people with working class backgrounds like my own. Technology and education have never made it more easy to “get on” in the financial services and gain access to global markets from the armchair of your home. I whole heartedly recommend you see Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd in Trading Places and hope you get as much from reading William Squibb &The Rogue Traders on your phones and iPads as I did watching them win a bet to “corner” the frozen concentrated orange juice market to bankrupt their billionaire bosses the Dukes.