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Documents the life of Robert Vesco, a high-school dropout from Detroit, who twisted the rules of Wall Street trading and corporate acquisitions to amass an immense fortune and who fled the U.S. in 1973
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Arthur Herzog is an award-winning novelist, non-fiction writer and journalist, renowned for his best-selling novels The Swarm, Orca (both made into popular movies), Make Us Happy, Heat and IQ 83, hailed by the British press as one of the best science fiction works ever written.His non-fiction best sellers include Vesco, which Publishers Weekly hailed as "A brilliantly researched storyone of the years remarkable biographies" and The Woodchipper Murder. A New Yorker, avid reader, and world traveler, Herzog continues to write fiction and non-fiction books.
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Herzog's brilliantly researched story should win honors as one of the year's remarkable biographies. He exposes the amoral brutalities of Wall Street and corporate finagling in this era of mergers, takeovers and junk bonds. He traces the career of legendary Robert Vesco from his youthful formation of an airplane-parts company, ICC, and gimmicky exploitation of his growing "big money" reputation through banks in the Bahamas and the Caymans to his big couptaking control of Bernie Cornfield's multi-million dollar Investors Overseas Service at the beginning of the 1970s. By 1973, when the SEC went after him, Vesco had taken flight with some $240-million of IOS funds. His zig-zag life as a fugitive involved sojourns and escapes from the Bahmas and Costa Rica, and Herzog's scenario scarcely misses a beat right up to the remarkable last pagesHerzog's ultimate catching up with a nearlybroken Vesco in Cuba, where he now lives. Herzog is the author of 10 novels and four works of nonfiction.
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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0385241763
- ISBN 13 9780385241762
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages380
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