Product Description: John Malcolm is barely 30, a high school football hero and Princeton graduate, he controls a hedge fund worth $50m. He made his millions back in the early '90's, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian markets and winning. Failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace a la Nick Leeson, but potentially even death - at the hands of the Japanese Yakuza. "Ugly Americans" tells Malcolm's story, and that of others like him, in a cross between Mezrich's own best-selling "Bringing Down the House" and Michael Lewis' "Liar's Poker".
Money, Sex & Drug Fueled Adventure in Japan From back cover:
"John Malcolm first went to Japan to play football. He returned to ride the crest of the wave of financial raiding, trading and speculating that earned Nick Leeson a spell in gaol and Malcolm his reputation as an ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money - $7 million in his first month, just for starters. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenalin-, sex- and drugs-fuelled edge - kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back rooms of high-class 'soap houses' (brothels) and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East."
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