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The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
William Morrow
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0061252727
EAN: 9780061252723
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From the author who brought you the massive New York Times
bestseller Bringing Down the House, this is the startling
rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the
streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild,
frenetic world of the oil exchange. After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business
School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc
Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower
Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands
every week, the Merc is like a casino on crack, where former
garbagemen become millionaires overnight and where
fistfights break out on the trading floor. This ordinary kid has traded Brooklyn for the gold-lined
hotel palaces of Dubai. He keeps company on the decks of
private yachts in Monte Carlo—teeming with half-naked girls
flown in by Saudi sheiks—and makes deals in the dangerous
back alleys of Beijing. But the Merc is just a starting place. Taken under the wing
of another young gun and partnering with a mysterious young
Muslim, the kid embarks on a dangerous adventure to
revolutionize the oil trading industry—and, along with it,
the world. Rigged is the explicit, exclusive, true story behind the
headlines that dominate the world stage.
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