18 books like Billion Dollar Whale

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The con game and "Yellow Kid" Weil J. R. Weil · 1948 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men.You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity—$8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals, even a money-making machine—all were tools of the trade for the Kid and his associates: the Swede,… Shares: Fraud, Swindlers and swindling, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

The Hit Charade Tyler Gray · 2008 · ★ 3.4 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and NSYNC and Backstreet Boys began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a husky… Shares: Swindlers and swindling, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Today's white-collar crime Hank J. Brightman · 2009 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Written as a text for undergraduate courses, this book appeals to instructors interested in teaching the field of white-collar crime, both from a matter-of-fact investigative perspective as well as a decidedly academic endeavor. Accordingly, it goes beyond discussing the basic theories and typologies of commonly-encountered offenses such as fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and currency… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

Wall Street stories Edwin Lefèvre · 1901 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Edwin Lefèvre was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat most noted for his writings on Wall Street business: The Woman and Her Bonds, The Break in Turpentine, The Tipster, A Philanthropic Whisper,The Man Who Won, The Lost Opportunity, Pike's Peak or Bust, A Theological Tipster. Shares: Wall street, Business

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares: True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before.Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force — the yakuza.Saigo,… Shares: True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Armadillo William Boyd · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 359p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised, is a con game run with the protection of the law. One winter's morning, Lorimer goes to… Shares: Fraud, Business

Bad Blood John Carreyrou · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is a nonfiction book by journalist John Carreyrou, released May 21, 2018. It covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup headed by Elizabeth Holmes. The book received critical acclaim, winning the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Shares: Fraud, Business

Elon Musk Joseph Greene · 2022 ELON MUSKDriven by idealism and the desire to be actively involved in the progression of humankind, Elon Musk has been dubbed a "thrillionaire" by The New York Times; a tech entrepreneur using his wealth to turn science fiction into science fact.Musk wants to save planet Earth, send civilians into space, and colonize Mars. He wants to create artificial intelligence that will aid humanity, and he… Shares: Business, Biography & Memoir

The Queen Josh Levin · 2019 · ★ 3.6 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "In the fall of 1974, the Chicago Tribune found a woman its readers were sure to hate. Linda Taylor had reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a scammer, a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. But… Shares: Swindlers and swindling, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Fatal System Error Joseph Menn · 2010 · ★ 3.4 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs,… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 553p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares: True Crime

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Nice Girl? is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film is about a young girl who finds herself attracted to one of her fathers business partners who comes to town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies. Shares: True Crime

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dd magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.' Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social bogeymen. If you believe the dire warnings of the media and politicians, they are an organised crime threat on… Shares: True Crime

Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville · 1966 · ★ 3.9 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by… Shares: Wall street, Biography & Memoir

A Talent to Deceive William Norris · 2006 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, and the subsequent trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, have been a source of fascination for more than 70 years. Now, for the first time, William Norris delves into sources of information ignored by previous investigators and comes up with the identity of the true culprit. Lindbergh is exposed as having obstructed the… Shares: True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Malicious bots Ken Dunham · 2008 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Originally designed as neutral entities, computerized bots are increasingly being used maliciously by online criminals in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet explores the rise of dangerous bots and exposes the nefarious methods of "botmasters". This valuable resource… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

The Moneychangers Arthur Hailey · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Chronique d?une banque et du monde financier Shares: White-collar Crime, Business

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