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By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king. Here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the wolf of Wall Street.
In the 1990s Jordan Belfort became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brillant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a tale of greed, power and excess no one could invent - the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundred of millions. Until it all came crashing down... |
