Billion Dollar Whale

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this New York Times-bestseller exposes how a ‘modern Gatsby’ swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in ‘the heist of the century’.


Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is ‘an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale’ (Publishers Weekly, starred review), 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 unprecedented gall and magnitude — one that would come to symbolise 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 champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.


By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the US 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.

Numit cea mai buna carte a anului 2018 de Financial Times si Fortune, acest bestseller din New York Times expune modul in care un „Gatsby modern” a inselat peste 5 miliarde de dolari cu ajutorul lui Goldman Sachs in „Heist of the Century”. bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale este „o poveste epica a crimelor cu guler alb la scara globala” (Publishers Weekly, recenzie cu stea), dezvaluind modul in care un tanar alpinist social din Malaezia a scos unul dintre cele mai mari jafuri din istorie. absolvent dolofan si bland, de la Scoala de Afaceri Wharton de la Universitatea din Pennsylvania, numit Jho Low, a pus in miscare o frauda de fel si magnitudine fara precedent - una care ar ajunge sa simbolizeze urmatoarea mare amenintare la adresa sistemului financiar global.