Rigged by Ben Mezrich

Rigged by Ben Mezrich

From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House, Rigged is the startling, rags-to-riches true story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the New York Mercantile 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 of Wall Street oil trading, a world 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 volatile business of high-stakes finance is run and what happened when a man with solid gold cajones decided to flip a business--and an entire Exchange--on its head.

• Business Memoir: Follow Johnny Castino's adrenaline-fueled journey from a blue-collar background to the heights of international finance.
• Commodities Trading: Go behind the scenes of the oil exchange, a place where fortunes are made and lost in seconds and the pressure is relentless.
• Financial Thriller: A gripping, fast-paced narrative filled with exotic locales from Dubai to Monte Carlo, high-stakes deals, and life-threatening danger.
• Ivy League Underdog: Discover how a Harvard grad with street smarts navigated a cutthroat world of insiders to take on the entire system from within.