In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster un history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.

Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.

A small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders at the big Wall Street banks expose this institutionalized injustice and go to war to fix it.

"A young stockbroker [is] hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough. His name was Jordan Belfort"--Container.

Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...

Alex Garrett, a recent college graduate who began her Wall Street career in 2006, dreams of fast-talking days on the trading floor while living a life tied to a government bond desk and performing other peculiar tasks.

Thirty-five-year-old bond trader Nick Farmer is burned out on the nightlife of excess and struggles to find the right path in his personal and professional life.

In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. The scandal is known as 1MDB, and the man behind it, Jho Low, is a figure so preposterous he might seem made up. "An epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Billion Dollar...

"Written with verve and passion. . . . offers a remarkable array of insights into the history of American capitalism." - Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University "Big, boisterous, biting, and brilliant. . . . both page-turner and scholarly tour de force." - Walter A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom Just Around the Corner "Remarkable. . . . Fraser tells the tale in high style." - Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton...