Ugly Americans

<p>Ben Mezrich author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Bringing Down the House</em> returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys high stakes and the Asian underworld.</p><p>John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys living life on the adrenaline- sex- and drugs-fueled edge--kids running billion-dollar portfolios trading information in the back rooms of high-class brothels and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East.</p><p>Malcolm and his Ivy League-schooled twenty-something colleagues with their warped sense of morality created their own economic theory that would culminate in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before--or since.</p><p><em>Ugly Americans</em> is a story of extremes charged with wealth nerve excess and glamour. A real-life mixture of <em>Liar's Poker</em> and <em>Wall Street</em> brimming with intense action romance underground sex vivid locales and exotic characters <em>Ugly Americans</em> is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.</p>