The Count Window

Forty-three days before Malaysia's election, Julia Finch finds disciplined foreign positions accumulating in sovereign debt. The trades are too careful to be random and too small to trigger automatic review. In Kuala Lumpur, Julia traces offshore routes and political-finance records toward a strategy designed to profit from uncertainty after a valid vote. The election itself is not the crime she can prove. The danger lies in what happens when markets begin pricing an unsettled outcome. With Zack Carroll and her sources under pressure, Julia must warn the right people without moving the market or overstating what the evidence shows.