Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the complicity between legitimate and illegitimate businesses in both the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places, during the last decade of the 20th century, All Is Clouded by Desire examines the criminal dealings that led to the revelation that the Bank of New York's Eastern European Division laundered $6 billion for Russian organized criminals and other shady organizations and individuals. In a series of intrigues that involved crooked Geneva banker Bruce Rappaport and high-level members of the Bank of New York, criminal Russian organizations were able to thrive and prosper during a time when the rest of the former Soviet Union crumbled amidst growing corruption and a declining economy. Tracing the financial shenanigans back many years, Block and Weaver illustrate how the underworld of high finance, money laundering, mafia groups, CIA operatives, and legitimate banking institutions can clean dirty money and operate criminal enterprises that span the globe.

在安然、阿瑟·安德森和世界通讯之前，纽约银行的洗钱丑闻曾在1999年成为头条新闻。这本书有望成为关于国际有组织犯罪的最重要书籍之一，《洗钱》，以及在20世纪最后十年中，美国和前苏联等地合法和非法企业之间的共谋，这一切都被欲望笼罩着。欲望调查了导致纽约银行东欧分部为俄罗斯有组织犯罪分子和其他可疑组织和个人洗钱60亿美元的犯罪交易。在日内瓦银行家布鲁斯·拉帕波特（Bruce Rappaport）和纽约银行（Bank of New York）高层成员参与的一系列阴谋中，俄罗斯犯罪组织得以在前苏联其他地区因腐败加剧和经济衰退而崩溃的时期蓬勃发展。Block and Weaver追溯了多年前的金融骗局，展示了高金融、洗钱、黑手党团体、中央情报局特工和合法银行机构的黑社会是如何清理肮脏的金钱和经营遍布全球的犯罪企业的。