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From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House, Rigged is the startling, rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange.

Black Gold. Texas Tea. Everybody wants oil but only a rare few have truly made a killing mastering its intricacies. One of those lucky bastards is Johnny Castino, a ballsy Italian-American from Brooklyn with an ego and a keen intelligence to match his ambition. Rigged is his story: a startling rags-to-riches tale of an ordinary kid turned Harvard grad who found himself caught up in the ultimate high-stakes adventure filled with money, sex, exotic locales, life-threatening danger, and extraordinary international consequences.

Moving from the streets of Brooklyn to Dubai, Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Jakarta, Moscow, and Shanghai, Rigged reveals how the business is run and what happened when a man with solid gold cajones decided to flip a business -- and an entire Exchange -- on its head.

• Rags to Riches Ambition: Follow Johnny Castino from the streets of Brooklyn to the halls of Harvard and into the cutthroat pits where fortunes are made and lost in seconds.

• High-Stakes Wall Street: Experience the real story of the traders, brokers, and backroom deals that drive the price of the world's most vital commodity.

• High-Stakes Oil Trading: Go behind the scenes of the NYMEX, from the frenetic energy of the trading floor to the backroom deals that move millions of barrels and billions of dollars.

• The Trader Lifestyle: Dive into a world fueled by adrenaline and excess, where a single trade can fund a party that makes history -- or end a career in an instant.

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  • Print Length: 320 Pages
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