Den of Thieves
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008TRU7PE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 397 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 and criminality were rationalized . J. Smallridge said A Great Work. 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 1980s and late "A Great Work" according to 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 1980s and late 2000s, little chan. 000s, little chan. The chronicles of a decade of greed 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 is an extensive collection of stor
Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Updated in paperback. From Publishers Weekly This 29-week PW bestseller, a QPB main selection, tells of the rise and fall during the 1980s of the biggest insider trading ring in Wall Street history.
Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky written especially for this paperback edition, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.. A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ 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