Den of Thieves

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Unfortunately for him, the officials working at the bank where he kept his money – the Swiss Bank Leu – noticed that he traded on insider information.

Instead, he allows you to meet each individual and see how they became embroiled in Wall Street's worst scandal since the 1930s. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.He begins by introducing his four main players in such lively circumstances that they jump off the page. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. So, we get a bit of a different experience from a true crime or crime fiction work, but it still keeps some of that drama; ultimately, it all comes down to greed and thoughtlessness, like a lot of crime.

Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.The line can so easily be blurred or forgotten when any party prioritises its own gains above the others. The Philadelphia Inquirer"Stewart takes the reader through the maze of arcane Wall Street dealings as if he were writing a detective story. Insider’s take – You’ll have the privilege of learning from someone who knows her or his topic inside-out. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

As with all stories about high-flying 80s Wall Street players, Den of Thieves inspired in me that peculiar mix of disgust and envy - disgust for the unethical behavior and blatant criminality that these guys thought they could get away with, and envy for the amazing lifestyles and sheer balls they had.Well, that seems like a pretty naive way for an experienced Wall Street Journal reporter to look at it. The famed English jurist Sir Edward Coke wrote as early as 1602 that "fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

What happens when that kind of personality is unleashed upon the junk bond market in the Reagan 80s? You come to realize that regulators and public prosecutors are imperfect people in imperfect situations, subject to their own set of desires, temptations and problems. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. And with the help of a drunken sea captain, Monsieur Bonaventure, sails set for England and all ends well.Investment banks and other Wall Street institutions, highly leveraged against political influence, hold the keys to the house as the downtrodden, resource-strapped and powerless regulators can't stand tall enough to look over the fence. A wise professor has said that the needs of the financial markets to operate and profit now rival if not surpass our inclination to and institutions of democratic self-government.