NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Now a major motion picture directed
by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as
fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and
ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and
the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king,
here, in Jordan Belfort's own words, is the story of the ill-fated
genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became
one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant,
conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall
Street and into a massive office on Long Island. It's an extraordinary
story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of
an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds
of millions--until it all came crashing down.
Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street
"Raw and frequently hilarious."--The New York Times
"A rollicking tale of [Jordan Belfort's] rise to riches as head of the
infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there are indeed
second acts in American lives."--Forbes
"A cross between Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and
Scorsese's GoodFellas . . . Belfort has the Midas touch."--The
Sunday Times (London)
"Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell
of a read."--Kirkus Reviews
