Billion Dollar Whale

US: Billion Dollar Whale: The Ma, 2019. Paperback. Good. Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilli ng" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" sw indled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the c entury" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania 's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprec edented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champag ne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of W all Street. By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorit ies and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low h ad become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation. Billion Dollar Whale has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.