Predator Ball

Author: Connie Brooke
English.: The Predators' Ball
Interpreter: A. Stolyarov
Publisher: Olympus Business
Series: Troika Dialog Library

Year: 2008.
Pages: 400 pp.
Format: 60×90/16 (145×217 mm)
Binding: Hardcover 

FROM THE PUBLISHER OF A BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE INSIDER

This book is the result of interviews that Connie Brooke conducted over two and a half years with what could be considered the main collective character in this book, the employees of the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert and members of its customer network. Michael Milken of Drexel in the 1980s was the king of junk bonds and he was moving billions of dollars. With the help of "junk," he was involved in the acquisition of many companies and financed the biggest corporate raiders. But on September 7, 1988, after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Milken and Drexel with illegal use of confidential information and stock fraud, everything changed...

What prompted Milken to take a perverse path to power and money? Did Drexel Burnham Lambert really condone breaking the law? "The Predator's Ball" beautifully shows how a phase of American business history took shape and reveals the philosophy of greed that reigned on Wall Street in the 1980s.

The book is addressed to a wide range of readers.