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★★★★☆ 4.16 • Goodreads

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Devoured 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin for its surgical financial autopsies? Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart dissects the '80s with wiretaps and handcuffs.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Real wiretaps & FBI sting operations unfold
  • Milken's junk-bond empire collapses in real-time
  • Schadenfreude as Wall St titans face handcuffs
  • Regulatory failure exposed w/ insider access

If 1929 fed your hunger for financial catastrophe dissected with surgical precision, Den of Thieves delivers the 1980s sequel you didn't know you craved. Stewart excavates the Milken-Boesky-Levine axis with the same forensic intensity—backroom betrayals, SEC wiretaps, and junk bond kings who confused audacity with invincibility. It's insider trading as Greek tragedy, minus the mercy.

It's insider trading as Greek tragedy, minus the mercy.

Here's Wall Street eating itself alive in real time: old money versus leveraged upstarts, regulatory capture laid bare, and the schadenfreude of watching Harvard MBAs in handcuffs. The rigged game, forensically documented.

If you thought 1929 was the definitive anatomy of greed, Stewart just raised the stakes.

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What Readers Are Saying

"a seriously in-depth and well constructed analysis...I was enthralled as the house of cards was built higher and higher..." Ross McDougall, Goodreads
"Incredible story about the enhancement of one of the most transformational markets...Must read for anyone interested in finance." Connor Lima, Goodreads
"crafting a propulsive and engrossing narrative...showing the people involved as individuals with nuance" Megan, Goodreads

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