Federal agents who helped unravel Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme say the 1MDB affair will become the textbook case of financial fraud in the modern age-and its fallout is already being credited for taking down the prime minister of Malaysia.įor readers of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood, Billion Dollar Whale will become a classic, harrowing parable about finance run amok. His name is Jho Low, a man whose behavior was so preposterous he might seem made up.Īn epic true-tale of hubris and greed, Billion Dollar Whale reveals how this young social climber pulled off one of the biggest heists in history-right under the nose of the global financial industry. In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a baby-faced, seemingly mild-mannered Wharton grad began setting in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude-one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Hope is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Gerald Loeb Award winner. The definitive inside account of the 1MDB scandal, 'a true life thriller' (Ben Mezrich) about a 'modern Gatsby' who managed to swindle over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others-a 'must read' (Booklist) 'epic tale' (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that exposes the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics from two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters. Bradley Hope, based in London, is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale, and covers finance and malfeasance for the Wall Street Journal.Before that he spent six years as a Middle East correspondent.

Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright