By all counts, this book should’ve sunk like a stone. I thought long and hard about where it finds its redemption from – almost as long as it took me to read this book. The answer is “I don’t know”, so I’m still puzzled, but I have to say that the time I spent reading [...]

Take a bit of the William Hurt movie Body Heat, add in a bit of anything from any recent Jet Li movie, and bingo – you’ve got this book.
Unfortunately, the Jet Li aspect dominates the William Hurt side of things, so this is like a Jet Li movie: readable, even fun at times, but not [...]

For all the business-magazines and Nobel-winning Economists that go on about how the venality on display today had its roots in the 90s, there’s precious little attention being paid to the many thinly fictionalized accounts of financial skullduggery that hit the bookstores over a decade ago.
Rhodes knows his finance-business, and his denouncements of derivatives are [...]

This is a surprise package. Should have been avoidable, but it’s not. Relatively underplayed, not over the top as many in this class (particularly those featuring US “heroes”) tend to be. Check it out – you could be pleasantly surprised.
Passable.