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A True Financial Thriller
Wiley
February 2010
On Sale: February 8, 2010
368 pages ISBN: 0470553731 EAN: 9780470553732 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Bernie Madoff was a king of the financial world. He'd helped
create NASDAQ and founded one of the most successful
broker-dealers in the industry. He was also a beloved
philanthropist. But very few people knew about his side
business: he was quietly running the largest hedge fund in
the world, a fund that eventually spread to over forty
nations and handled tens of billions of dollars.
Harry Markopolos was a quant, a little-known number
cruncher sitting at a desk at a Boston equity derivatives
firm analyzing investment products. When a marketer for that
firm, Frank Casey, handed Harry a prospectus outlining
Madoff's strategy and asked him to create a similar product,
he sat down and looked at the numbers. Literally within
minutes Harry knew it was impossible to do. The numbers
didn't add up. For the next ten years, Harry
Markopolos and the investigative team he recruited tried
desperately to warn the government, the industry, and the
financial press that the largest and most successful hedge
fund in the industry was a total fraud and that the
respected and admired Bernie Madoff was a crook. But No One
Would Listen. This is the thrilling, complete
story of the pursuit of the greatest financial criminal in
history—a chase that put Markopolos's life in jeopardy, led
to international notoriety from his appearance on 60
Minutes, and once again opened the door to questions
regarding the true effectiveness of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC). Markopolos's
incredible investigation takes readers inside the financial
industry, revealing the never-before-told stories behind the
headlines. As he shows, Madoff was a creation of the
anything-for-profit culture that has devastated our economy
and that perhaps led thousands of industry professionals,
who knew about the fraud, to adhere to the industry's code
of silence. No One Would Listen is the
frighteningly true story of massive fraud, governmental
incompetence, and criminal collusion that has changed
thousands of lives forever—as well as the world's financial
system.
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