The Wolf of Wall Street Collection The Wolf of Wall Street & Catching the Wolf of Wall Street

<p><b>THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF HOW JORDAN BELFORT BECAME <i>THE WOLF OF WALL STREET</i>...</b><br><b>...AND HOW HE CAME CRASHING DOWN.</b><br><br><b>'What separates Jordan's story from others like it, is the brutal honesty' </b>Leonardo DiCaprio<br><b>'Raw and frequently hilarious' </b><i>The New York Times</i><br><b>'Reads like a cross between Tom Wolfe's <i>Bonfire of the Vanities</i> and Scorsese's <i>Goodfellas</i>... Laugh-out funny' </b><i>The Sunday Times</i><br><br><b>1 - THE WOLF OF WALL STREET</b><br>By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him for at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called... THE WOLF OF WALL STREET. <br>In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. In this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent - the story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. <br>Until it all came crashing down.<br><br><b>2 - CATCHING THE WOLF OF WALL STREET</b><br>In the 1990s Jordan Belfort became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper. He was THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, whose life of greed, power and excess was so outrageous it could only be true; no one could make this up! But the day Jordan was arrested and taken away in handcuffs was not the end of the madness.<br><i>Catching the Wolf of Wall Street </i>tells of what happened next. After getting out of jail on $10 million bail he had to choose whether to plead guilty and act as a government witness or fight the charges and see his wife be charged as well. he cooperated.<br>With his trademark brash, brazen and thoroughly unputdownable storytelling, Jordan details more incredible true tales of fortunes made and lost, money-making schemes, parties, sex, drugs, marriage, divorce and prison.</p>