Rigged
The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
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4.1 • 116 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House, Rigged 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.
Black Gold. Texas Tea. Everybody wants oil but only a rare few have truly made a killing mastering its intricacies. One of those lucky bastards is Johnny Castino, a ballsy Italian-American from Brooklyn with an ego and a keen intelligence to match his ambition. Rigged is his story: a startling rags-to-riches tale of an ordinary kid turned Harvard grad who found himself caught up in the ultimate high-stakes adventure filled with money, sex, exotic locales, life-threatening danger, and extraordinary international consequences.
Moving from the streets of Brooklyn to Dubai, Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Jakarta, Moscow, and Shanghai, Rigged reveals how the business is run and what happened when a man with solid gold cajones decided to flip a business—and an entire Exchange—on its head.
Customer Reviews
Rigged
It is not the author's ability to portray beautiful people doing extraordinary things, but how he finds people to write about that have such a drive and passion around what they do. Rigged is a great example; and yet will give you a new appreciation for the way the financial engine of the world hums and how all citizens of the world are intertwined.
Absolutely phenomenal book!
This is easily one of my favorite books about the merc exchange and how that world works. Mezrich is an uber-talented writer and anyone curious about international trade would enjoy this novel!