Billion Dollar Whale
The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Bradley Hope
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller 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 WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global sc...
Publish Date
2019
October 22
First Published in 2018
Goodreads rating
4.04
ISBN
9780316436472
Recommendations
6
Recommendations
As Bad Blood is to biotech, Billion Dollar Whale is to international finance. A wonderful read. Thrilling. – source
An incredible story... If you need some billionaires to despise--look no further than these charlatans. – source
Feb 21, 2019
This excellent book describes how $4.5bn was allegedly taken from the Malaysian government to fund the making of Wolf of Wall Street and buy jewellery for Miranda Kerr (among *many* other things). Unfortunately you can’t buy it in UK due to our libel laws! – sourceFeb 17, 2020
This book on the 1MDB scandal was great, hard to put down.
Low sophistication + huge brazenness is a powerful fraud combo. – source