Den of Thieves
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00F64VXUQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street - Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine - created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions - until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice. A number one best seller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells, in masterfully reported detail, the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the
Malleus Maleficarum said The age of excess. This is a fantastic book that meticulously traces the insider trading cliques that were rampant in the 80s with an incestuous ring of networked fixers trading information and favours to move stock prices in ways that would serve to make themselves extremely wealthy. Reading this book, one would be struck to see the casual manner in which issues of conflict of interest a. A Great Work J. Smallridge This book reads like a thriller. I liked how Stewart structured the story of financial impropriety and allowed characters to emege through such meticulous research. Stewart has a reporter's eye for detail and for dialogue so it though a reader is right in the middle of all the action.What saddened me about reading this is despite the time between the events of the late . "The chronicles of a decade of greed" according to Emil B. This book comes almost straight out of the courtroom and newspapers. The author mixed it with imagination and good writing into something that looks more like a good movie script than a story about corruption. James is a Wall Street Journal reporter and he knows his work very well; everything in the book is fact based and documented from public sources. Den of Thieves i