Ben Mezrich
Bio: Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. Since then, he has published six novels with a combined printing of more than a million copies in nine languages (Threshold, Reaper, Fertile Ground, Skin, and under Holden Scott, Skeptic and The Carrier. His second novel, Reaper, was turned into TBS's premiere movie, Fatal Error, starring Antonio Sabato, Jr., and Robert Wagner. Bringing Down the House is his seventh book and his first foray into nonfiction.
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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 It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is auditing you, someone has been going through your mail--and you have a multivariable calculus exam on Monday morning. Welcome to the world of an exclusive g... more info>> 2002
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Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, this 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. After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylum-like oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every w... more info>>
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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld. John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge--kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back ro... more info>>
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Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine--but it would nearly cost him his life. Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop--a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't il... more info>>
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