Ben Mezrich has already written New York Times best-seller 'Bringing Down The House', but he has written a new book - "Rigged" : The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai"
'Rigged' is said to be a true, explicit story of an 'Ivy League Kid Who Changed The World Of Oil, From Wall Street To Dubai'.
Ben Mezrich is an American author from Boston, Massachusetts, who started out writing fiction but now has made his foray into non-fiction. He graduated magna-cum-laude from Harvard in 1991. He has since published eight books which have together sold over a million copies in nine different languages. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott.
Mezrich is best known for his first non-fiction work, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions . This book tells the story of a group of students from MIT who bet on blackjack games using a sophisticated card counting system, earning millions of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the United States and the Caribbean.
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 asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place where billions of dollars trade hands every week, the Merc is like a casino on crack, where former garbagemen become millionaires overnight and where fistfights break out on the trading floor.( source:ebooks )
Other Non-Fiction Books Written By Ben Mezrich :
* Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (2002)
* Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions (2004)
* Busting Vegas : The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees (2005, ISBN 0060575123)
* Rigged : The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai (2007)
* Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions (2004)
* Busting Vegas : The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees (2005, ISBN 0060575123)
* Rigged : The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai (2007)
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