<p>Ben Mezrich, author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <i>Bringing Down the House</i>, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld.</p> <p>John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge—kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back rooms of high-class brothels and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East.</p> <p>Malcolm and his Ivy League-schooled twenty-something colleagues, with their warped sense of morality, created their own economic theory that would culminate in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before—or since.</p> <p><i>Ugly Americans</i> is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of <em>Liar's Poker</em> and <em>Wall Street</em>, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, <i>Ugly Americans</i> is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.</p>