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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
Hardcover / e-Book
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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
“secret market” beneath the financial market we all
know.
Sam Israel was a man who
seemed to have it all – until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou,
imploded and he became the target of a nationwide
manhunt. Born into one of America’s 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 1980’s, Sam founded his own fund
and promised his investors guaranteed profits.
With the proprietary computer program he’d 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 “secret market” run by the Fed,
Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make
billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in “the
Upperworld” -- a society populated by clandestine bankers,
shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings
about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the “secret market” was real or a con, Israel was
all in – and as the pressures mounted and increasingly
sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break
free of the Octopus’ tentacles.
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