In the go-go nineties Jordan Belfort proved to Wall Street that you didn&#8217;t need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. But his company, Stratton Oakmont, worked differently. His young Long Island wannabes didn&#8217;t know from turnaround plans or fiduciary trust. Instead, they knew how to separate wealthy investors from their cash, and spend it as fast as it came in&#8212;on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordan&#8217;s empire crashed, the man who had become legend was cornered into a five-year stint cooperating with the feds. This continuation of his <i>Wall Street Journal </i>bestseller, <b>The Wolf of Wall Street</b><i>,</i> tells the true story of his spectacular flameout and imprisonment for stock fraud. <b><br><br></b>In this astounding account, Wall Street&#8217;s notorious bad boy&#8212;and original million-dollar-a-month stock chopper&#8212;leads us through a drama worthy of <i>The Sopranos</i>, from his early rise to power to the FBI raid on his estate to the endless indictments at his arrest, to his deal with a bloodthirsty prosecutor to rat out his oldest friends and colleagues&#8212;while they were doing the same. With his kingdom in ruin, not to mention his marriage, the Wolf faced his greatest challenge yet: how to navigate a gauntlet of judges and lawyers, hold on to his kids and his enraged model wife&#8212;and possibly salvage his self-respect. It wasn&#8217;t going to be easy. In fact, for a man with an unprecedented appetite for excess, it was going to be hell. <br><br>From a wired conversation at an Italian restaurant, where Jordan&#8217;s conscience finally kicks in, to a helicopter ride with an underage knockout that will become his ultimate undoing, here is the tale of a young genius on a roller coaster of harrowing highs&#8212;and more harrowing lows. But as the countdown to his moment in court begins, after one last crazy bout with a madcap Russian beauty queen, the man at the center of one of the most outrageous scandals in financial history sees the light of what matters most: his sobriety, and his future as a father and a man. Will a prison term be his first step toward redemption?<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>