Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from W

<p><strong>From the author who brought you the massive <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Bringing Down The House</em>, <em>Rigged</em> 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.</strong><br/></p> <p>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. </p><p> 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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Ben Mezrich<br><b>Publisher:</b> William Morrow & Company<br><b>Published:</b> 08/12/2008<br><b>Pages:</b> 320<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.54lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.32w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780061252730