Serpent on the Rock
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767923847 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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I would love to believe these swindles can't happen again It is a book that takes you behind the curtains of "investments" for one's retirement. I am not a big specialist on investment etc. and yet Kurt Eichenwald managed to keep me hooked on this book. I would love to believe these swindles can't happen again, but when you don't administer an exemplary pun. "Five Stars" according to Deb Myers. Great book. girasole said An eye-opener of those who duped the public and got away with much of it.. A startling account of greed and avarice and the sociopathic thinking of people who put other's financial lives in ruin.A non-stop read written with detail and excitement. If one is a novice investor this is a must read. For those of you who are sophisticated in the ways of the financial world, this
A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims.
KURT EICHENWALD has written for the New York Times for more than seventeen years. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism and a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, he has been selected repeatedly for the TJFR Business News Reporter as one of the nation’s most influential financial journalists. . His last book, the highly praised Conspiracy of Fools, was a New York Times
—New York TimesIF YOU WANT AN INSIDE LOOK AT WALL STREET AT ITS WORST, READ THIS BOOK.—Washington PostA DRAMATIC BOOK A RIVETING ACCOUNT GREAT WRITING THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO KEEP THE PAGES TURNING. —San Diego Union-TribuneBLOWS AWAY THRILLERS BY JOHN GRISHAM AND TOM CLANCY This book has it all: suspense and horror, greed and pure malice, along with heartbreak and the eternal, valiant struggle of the little guy against the forces of evil By two sentences into Serpent, I found myself hooked, unable to put the book down.—Insight. ABSORBING A PAGE-TURNER THE BOOK IS GREAT FUN TO READ As a tale of ego and greed on Wall Street, Serpent on the Rock is up there with Barbarians at the Gate.—USA TodayA COMPELLING TALE, richly laced with details,