Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this
"thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a
"modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs
in "the heist of the century" (Axios).
Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic
tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly),
revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the
biggest heists in history.
In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low 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. Over a
decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions
of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global
financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections,
purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even
to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street.
By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by
authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United
States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S.
Department of Justice continued its investigation.
Billion Dollar Whale has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of
Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and
greed in the financial world.
