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Sam Israel, The Secret Market, And Wall Street's Wildest Con
Crown
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 0307716074
EAN: 9780307716071
Kindle: B00540P9YS
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Non-Fiction Biography
Octopus is 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 โsecret marketโ beneath the financial market we all know.
Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all โ until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of Americaโs 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 1980โs, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits. With the proprietary computer program heโd 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 his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a โsecret marketโ run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in โthe Upperworldโ -- a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the โsecret marketโ was real or a con, Israel was all in โ and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopusโ tentacles.
 Media BuzzCBS This Morning - July 10, 2012
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