The Wolf of Wall Street

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER </b>• <b>Now 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 and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting 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 that 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>Praise for <i>The Wolf of Wall Street</i></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>