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A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine —created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America’s most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.

Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky written especially for this paperback edition, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.

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This 29-week PW bestseller, a QPB main selection, tells of the rise and fall during the 1980s of the biggest insider trading ring in Wall Street history. Updated in paperback. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Absolutely Splendid...Tremendously Important...Indecently Readable. (Michael Thomas The New York Times)

A fast-paced adventure populated with people who could teach the characters in 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty' a thing or two....It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the greed decade. (USA Today)

A revealing, disturbing tale of what can happen when greed runs rampant. (The Seattle Times)

Bursting with details...but told with magical clarity. (The Washington Post)

Stewart takes the reader through the maze of arcane Wall Street dealings as if he were writing a detective story. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Paperback: 587 pages
Publisher: Touchstone (September 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067179227X
ISBN-13: 978-0671792275
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 160 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #20 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > True Crime > White Collar Crime
- #35 in Books > Business & Money > Economics > Banks & Banking
- #43 in Books > Business & Money > Business Culture > Ethics

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Like 'Barbarians at the Gate' this incredible non-fiction book reads as if it were fiction. In fact, it more-or-less is the prequel to 'Barbarians' as each complements the other nicely. Michael Milken is a fascinating character study, and as the hub in the 1980's insider trading ring, he truly personified the "Greed is Good" mentality that persisted on Wall St in the 1980's. Rarely can I label a non-fiction author a master storyteller, but James B. Stewart succeeds masterfully in doing so. This is an excellent book.

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This is a fantastic book that meticulously traces the insider trading cliques that were rampant in the 80s with an incestuous ring of networked fixers trading information and favours to move stock prices in ways that would serve to make themselves extremely wealthy. Reading this book, one would be struck to see the casual manner in which issues of conflict of interest and criminality were rationalized away as"everybody does it" or "that's how things are done in Wall Street". The most shocking aspect is the brazen criminality. Unlike the crash of the late 2000s which was driven by poorly defined incentives than malicious intent, The dramatis personae of this take, Boesky, Siegel, Levine, Milken all knew they were breaking the law but went ahead and did it anyway. And in the most exasperating post of the whole affair, the author does that despite the indictments and the prison terms, most of them still retained substantial wealth after their purgatory terms were over. At the end, it's not clear if one can really say that crime, at least on Wall Street, does not pay.

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As usual the bad guys got away with it but it is the ...

July 24, 2018

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Outstanding coverage of an involved and difficult case. As usual the bad guys got away with it but it is the way the complicated story is put across and the dramatic finale tht makes this a must read for people interested in Wall St greed of the "80's (repeated in the 90's, 2000's and now 2010 in other words forever) The real heroes were the lawyers who stuck with low salaries for years to bring the offenders to justice. That showed public service (ahead of private gain )in America is not dead after all. Excellent

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Shocking and familiar

February 17, 2017

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For anyone struggling to understand the motivations and ecosystem of challenges around the financial system - this is a book to read.

The details are intense and insightful. I found the profiles of the people involved most telling. Their mindsets and decisions and values say more about the challenges we face in a civil society than anything else.

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This account will 'get' you, immediately putting you into the thick of the appallingly real story of these arbitrageurs (the author nails what they really are: thieves). Even 35 years later, it's still astounding just how far these arbitrageurs went in breaking the law, astounding how much wealth they amassed and, despite the Herculean efforts and 'victories' of authorities, it's astounding how much ill-gotten wealth the biggest offenders ended up retaining. But beware: it may also leave you outraged at the lack of contrition of the biggest perpetrators, saddened at the continued fawning of their sycophantic worshippers, and still wondering what's really changed now?

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This is the preeminent account of the Milken-Boesky-Levine insider trading scandal that brought down Drexel and chilled Wall Street for a decade. Exceptionally well researched and easy to read, the book takes the reader through a maze of deals, informants, financial engineering and fraud. A must read for any finance fan.

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The chronicles of a decade of greed

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This book comes almost straight out of the courtroom and newspapers. The author mixed it with imagination and good writing into something that looks more like a good movie script than a story about corruption. James is a Wall Street Journal reporter and he knows his work very well; everything in the book is fact based and documented from public sources. Den of Thieves is an extensive collection of stories that follow individual destinies coming together in one of the most extraordinary decade in Wall Street history. When you read the book you feel more like you sit in front of a TV and someone is playing in front of you pieces of recordings made skilfully over a period of several years. In fact, you get into an intriguing action from the very beginning and the suspense keeps you awake for quite a while. There is so much detail that you will be amazed at of how James managed to put all together so well.

The book is divided in two parts: Above the Law and The Chase. You get to see both sides of the story, both of them full of drama. I did not realise that the prosecutors had such a hard time until I read this book. It is not only a matter of legal technicality that explains some of the difficulties the law enforcements officers experienced in putting their case together (so they act "legally"), but it is also a matter of political interests that played such an important role in obstructing the application of the law. There are names more or less popular, some of them bordering celebrity status that come together and clash in a fight driven by conflicting interests. You read about people like Michael Milken, the guru of junk bonds, Ivan Boesky, the mysterious arbitrageur, Rudolph Giuliani, the famous mayor of NY, Martin Siegel, the investment banker that perfected the "poison pill" and many others. The law prevailed in the end but with such a great effort and pain, that one could not really imagine winners getting any joy out of this, maybe just a sense of relief that was all over.

Overall this is a good book, it is easy to read, fast paced, and not technical at all. I wish it had more clarity in marking the dates. Sometimes is difficult to understand the succession of events and see clearly what caused what. You will need occasionally to go back a few pages just to get the sequence straight. Although the story is about people and James made an effort to build characters by putting thoughts into their heads as the events unfold, I had the impression that some sections where very much taken from court archived notes. Overall, Den of Thieves is a good book that you can use to travel back in time and understand what happened during 80's, the decade of greed.

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