Billion Dollar Whale
Autor Bradley Hope, Tom Wrighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 oct 2019
Named
a
Best
Book
of
2018
by
theFinancial
TimesandFortune,
thisNew
York
Timesbestseller
about
the
1MDB
scandal
exposes
how
a
"modern
Gatsby"
swindled
over
$5
billion
with
the
aid
of
Goldman
Sachs
in
"the
heist
of
the
century"
(Axios).
Now a #1 international bestseller,BILLION DOLLAR WHALEis "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films likeThe Wolf of Wall Street.
By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation.
BILLION
DOLLAR
WHALEhas
joined
the
ranks
ofLiar's
Poker,Den
of
Thieves,
andBad
Bloodas
a
classic
harrowing
parable
of
hubris
and
greed
in
the
financial
world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780306873577
ISBN-10: 0306873575
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 106 x 173 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
ISBN-10: 0306873575
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 106 x 173 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
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Notă biografică
Tom
Wrightwas
one
of
the
first
journalists
to
arrive
at
the
scene
of
the
raid
in
which
Navy
SEALs
killed
Osama
bin
Laden.
In
2013,
he
spearheaded
coverage
of
the
collapse
of
the
Rana
Plaza
factory
in
Bangladesh,
which
killed
over
1,000
people,
earning
theWall
StreetJournala
Sigma
Delta
Chi
award
from
The
Society
of
Professional
Journalists.
He
is
a
Pulitzer
finalist,
a
Loeb
winner,
and
has
garnered
numerous
awards
from
the
Society
of
Publishers
in
Asia,
which
in
2016
named
him
"Journalist
of
the
Year."
He
speaks
English,
Malay,
French
and
Italian.
Bradley Hopehas worked for theWall Street Journalfor the last four years, covering finance and malfeasance from New York City and London. Before that, he spent six years as a correspondent in the Middle East, where he covered the Arab Spring uprisings from Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis, and Beirut. He was detained by authorities in Bahrain, reported from the front lines of the Libyan civil war, and has been teargassed in raucous Egyptian protests. Bradley is a Pulitzer finalist and a Loeb winner, and also author ofLast Days of the Pharaoh, a chronicle of the final days and hours of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.
Bradley Hopehas worked for theWall Street Journalfor the last four years, covering finance and malfeasance from New York City and London. Before that, he spent six years as a correspondent in the Middle East, where he covered the Arab Spring uprisings from Cairo, Tripoli, Tunis, and Beirut. He was detained by authorities in Bahrain, reported from the front lines of the Libyan civil war, and has been teargassed in raucous Egyptian protests. Bradley is a Pulitzer finalist and a Loeb winner, and also author ofLast Days of the Pharaoh, a chronicle of the final days and hours of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.
Recenzii
AFinancial
TimesBest
Book
of
2018
AFortunemagazine Best Book of 2018
"What a blast toread! A true life thriller that reads like a Hollywood movie,Billion DollarWhaletraces the exploits of the most mercurial, mysterious big player inhistory. Jho Low is Gatsby with twice the bankaccount and ten times the ambition, and the stories surrounding hisexploits leap right off the page!"—Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down The House
"If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealthporn, and absurdity,Billion Dollar Whale, by Tom Wright and BradleyHope, is for you.... It almost seems made up. Still, anyone who has followed thenews out of Malaysia will know that the story is all too real."—The New Yorker
"Wright and Hopedeliver a scintillating and prodigiously reported tale of a globe-spanningmodern Gatsby and his audacious fraud."—Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club
"This story of a Wharton graduate who carried out the$5 billion swindle known as 1MDB offers a textbook case of financial fraud inthe modern age."—New York Times
"Even the mostskilled fiction writer would have trouble conjuring the corrupt and colorfulprotagonist ofBillion Dollar Whale. Bradley Hope and Tom Wright'sgripping portrait of Jho Low and his enablers throughout the global financialsystem will both fascinate and enrage you."—Sheelah Kolhatkar, staff writer at The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge
"Thestory of a massive international financial scandal... As the authors amplyprove, the scandal reaches far beyond Low. To succeed, he relied on the naivete, greed, and generally immoral conduct of huge banks as well as corruptgovernments."—Kirkus
"An amazing tale of greed.... juicy andentertaining."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Wright and Hope transform theirinvestigation of a mind-boggling financial fraud into a nonfiction thriller...This is an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Well-researched and well-documented.... Revealshow Low used a bag of tricks, including financial fraud, to make himself seemmore powerful, more influential, and more successful than he actually was... Thisis a must-read."—Booklist
"An extraordinary tale.... richly woven...[with] doggedreporting.... Like all good business stories,Billion Dollar Whaleisbigger than the immediate one it tells. It is a story of emerging marketscrippled by corruption and cronyism and comes from the era of egregious--andmostly punishment-free--banking.... One thing is clear. If ever Hollywood getsround to telling the story on screen, here is perfect material for the script."—Financial Times
"Gripping.... The heist of the century."—Axios
"Takeone chubby Malaysian business school graduate. Mix with Middle Eastern sheikhsand greedy Southeast Asian politicians. Add Wall Street investment banks, lawfirms and Swiss wealth managers. Then mix in superyachts, five-star hotels,luxury apartments, nightclubs, models, A-list movie stars--and bathtubs ofchampagne... [This] richly reported page-turner is meticulously pieced togetherfrom interviews, documents and emails byWall Street JournalreportersTom Wright and Bradley Hope."—Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters
"Compelling."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A wonderful book... A rip-roaring, absolutelydelightful account of one of the biggest financial cons in the history of theworld.... If you likedBad Blood, you might well enjoyBillion DollarWhale... An incredible story of a con artist at the height of his game."—David Plotz, Slate "Political Gabfest"
"A cracking read."—Unreserved Media
"An incredible story."—Knowledge@Wharton
"One of the best business books in a long time."—Brian Sullivan, CNBC
"One of the most important books of 2018."—MoneyLaundering.com
AFortunemagazine Best Book of 2018
"What a blast toread! A true life thriller that reads like a Hollywood movie,Billion DollarWhaletraces the exploits of the most mercurial, mysterious big player inhistory. Jho Low is Gatsby with twice the bankaccount and ten times the ambition, and the stories surrounding hisexploits leap right off the page!"—Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down The House
"If you like global intrigue, financial crime, wealthporn, and absurdity,Billion Dollar Whale, by Tom Wright and BradleyHope, is for you.... It almost seems made up. Still, anyone who has followed thenews out of Malaysia will know that the story is all too real."—The New Yorker
"Wright and Hopedeliver a scintillating and prodigiously reported tale of a globe-spanningmodern Gatsby and his audacious fraud."—Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica and author of The Chickenshit Club
"This story of a Wharton graduate who carried out the$5 billion swindle known as 1MDB offers a textbook case of financial fraud inthe modern age."—New York Times
"Even the mostskilled fiction writer would have trouble conjuring the corrupt and colorfulprotagonist ofBillion Dollar Whale. Bradley Hope and Tom Wright'sgripping portrait of Jho Low and his enablers throughout the global financialsystem will both fascinate and enrage you."—Sheelah Kolhatkar, staff writer at The New Yorker and New York Times bestselling author of Black Edge
"Thestory of a massive international financial scandal... As the authors amplyprove, the scandal reaches far beyond Low. To succeed, he relied on the naivete, greed, and generally immoral conduct of huge banks as well as corruptgovernments."—Kirkus
"An amazing tale of greed.... juicy andentertaining."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Wright and Hope transform theirinvestigation of a mind-boggling financial fraud into a nonfiction thriller...This is an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Well-researched and well-documented.... Revealshow Low used a bag of tricks, including financial fraud, to make himself seemmore powerful, more influential, and more successful than he actually was... Thisis a must-read."—Booklist
"An extraordinary tale.... richly woven...[with] doggedreporting.... Like all good business stories,Billion Dollar Whaleisbigger than the immediate one it tells. It is a story of emerging marketscrippled by corruption and cronyism and comes from the era of egregious--andmostly punishment-free--banking.... One thing is clear. If ever Hollywood getsround to telling the story on screen, here is perfect material for the script."—Financial Times
"Gripping.... The heist of the century."—Axios
"Takeone chubby Malaysian business school graduate. Mix with Middle Eastern sheikhsand greedy Southeast Asian politicians. Add Wall Street investment banks, lawfirms and Swiss wealth managers. Then mix in superyachts, five-star hotels,luxury apartments, nightclubs, models, A-list movie stars--and bathtubs ofchampagne... [This] richly reported page-turner is meticulously pieced togetherfrom interviews, documents and emails byWall Street JournalreportersTom Wright and Bradley Hope."—Peter Thal Larsen, Reuters
"Compelling."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A wonderful book... A rip-roaring, absolutelydelightful account of one of the biggest financial cons in the history of theworld.... If you likedBad Blood, you might well enjoyBillion DollarWhale... An incredible story of a con artist at the height of his game."—David Plotz, Slate "Political Gabfest"
"A cracking read."—Unreserved Media
"An incredible story."—Knowledge@Wharton
"One of the best business books in a long time."—Brian Sullivan, CNBC
"One of the most important books of 2018."—MoneyLaundering.com