<b>Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio</b><br> <br> 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, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited 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 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.<br> <br> <b><i>WALL STREET JOURNAL </i>BESTSELLER</b><br> <br> “Raw and frequently hilarious.”<b>—<i>The New York Times</i></b><br> <br> “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.”<b>—<i>Forbes</i></b><br> <br> “A cross between Tom Wolfe’s <i>The Bonfire of the Vanities </i>and Scorsese’s <i>GoodFellas </i>. . . Belfort has the Midas touch.”<b>—<i>The Sunday Times </i>(London)</b><br> <br> “Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell of a read.”<b>—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b>