Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
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品牌: Guy Lawson
基本信息出版社:Crown (2012年7月10日)精装:368页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307716074条形码:9780307716071商品重量:626 gASIN:0307716074您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Octopusis a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a “secret market” beneath the financial market we all know.
Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all – until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of America’s most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own. So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980’s, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investorsguaranteedprofits. With the proprietary computer program he’d created, he claimed to be able to predict the future.
But his future was already beginning to unravel.
After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before hisrealperformance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a “secret market” run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in “the Upperworld” -- a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus.
Whether the “secret market” was real or a con, Israel was all in – and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopus’ tentacles.
媒体推荐“Lawson has mined the darkest, most seductive world I can imagine and delivered up a story that almost defies comprehension. Octopus is written with a force and clarity that I found absolutely irresistible…It’s a hell of a book.”
--Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm
"Liars and fraudsters and con men, oh my. Beyond the Bayou hedge fund implosion and faked suicide, Guy Lawsonwonderfully winds the bizarre tale of Sam Israel's demise into a swirl of global conspiracy and ultimate delusion."
--Andy Kessler,New York Timesbestselling author ofRunning MoneyandHow We Got Here
"A scintillating real-life thriller about one of the most peculiar frauds in history…Part true-crime thriller, part Wall Street investigation,Octopusis filled with startling revelations.”
--Gary Weiss, former investigative reporter forBusiness Weekand author ofBorn to Steal, Wall Street Versus AmericaandAyn Rand Nation
"An absorbing, splendidly detailed and darkly illuminating tale of our times.”
--David Whitford, Editor-at-Large, Fortune magazine
