Rigged

"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 Mere Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every week, the Mere 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 goldlined 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."--BOOK JACKET.Mezrich, Ben is the author of 'Rigged ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780061252723 and ISBN 0061252727.