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    Ugly Americans
    Ugly Americans
    Ugly Americans
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Ugly Americans

    Written by Ben Mezrich

    Narrated by TBD

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.

    Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the bizarre life of an ex-pat trader. Surrounded by characters ripped right out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world -- at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever known.

    Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank -- the oldest in England. He was the right-hand man to an enigmatic and brilliant hedge-fund cowboy, Dean Carney, and grew into one of the biggest derivatives traders in all of Asia. Along the way, Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of a Yakuza gangster, built a vast fortune out of thin air, and came head to head with violent Japanese mobsters. Malcolm and his twentysomething, Ivy League-schooled colleagues rode the crashing waves of the Asian markets during the mid-to late 1990s, culminating in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before, or since.

    A real-life mixture of Liar’s Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold, true story that will rock the financial community and redefine an era.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 4, 2004
    ISBN9780060764142
    Ugly Americans
    Author

    Ben Mezrich

    Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. He has sold over ten million copies of his twenty-four published books, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which was the basis for the hit movie 21. His current bestseller The Antisocial Network is being adapted into the feature film Dumb Money. Ben has written and produced for the hit TV show Billions on Showtime, and he travels the world speaking to audiences of all ages about writing books and the adventures he has experienced from each of his stories. He lives in Boston with his wife, two kids, and two pugs. 

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    • 4/5
      a few more technical explanations would have been most helpful

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    • 4/5
      This book is an interesting read whose element of reality adds to the lustre of supplemental fictional elements.Ben Mezrich's style of writing is conversational and thereby an easy read. The story was fascinating enough to keep me interested in its outcome, and the overall historical setting made me try to recall exactly what happened with PCCW at its IPO.

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    • 5/5
      What a crazy story, enjoyable read as usual. Amazed I haven’t listen to this one earlier. Gotta see what others I’ve missed out on. For those who like the style of his books, finance, and a curiosity for Japan; this is a tale you’ll remember.
    • 5/5
      Awesome book! Crazy story for finance people looking for some inspiration/crazy look into the “wild wild east”
    • 4/5
      A great read! Mezrich tells a great story and really brings out the nature of the people behind the characters. It's hard to believe it's true, but to some extent that's what I expected. It reads more like an outlandish screenplay, but what's wrong with that? It's a great story true or not.