"Den of Thieves" Paperback Novel

Kevin H: It's a fascinating story of Drexel from origins to the powerhouse it became to its downfall, along with its superstar trader, Milken.

The stories and characters make the book a great read but sometimes, all the characters and names of the people involved are quite confusing. However, that's a small gripe given the readability of the book.

United States on Jan 03, 2024

Bob M: I was continually astonished at how the author was able to make a highly technical series of events exciting to read.

Canada on May 09, 2023

michid2: Etwas zu sehr gehyptes Buch aber dennoch sehr lehsenswert.

Germany on Oct 27, 2020

marcello : Eccellente servizio

Italy on Feb 03, 2020

Amazon Customer: Terrific

India on Apr 01, 2018

Ross McDougall: 4.5 stars - This was a struggle! If you're a reader who only feels right when they can leave a book at a chapter mark, you'll struggle too! The chapters are massive :)

A seriously in-depth and well constructed analysis of the Wall Street shenanigans of the late 80's, it's easy to be completely floored by the sheer amount of funds being thrown around on every page. Stewart has clearly done his homework and compiled an excellent inside-story of greed, arrogance and ignorance.

I was enthralled as the house of cards was built higher and higher than it was every designed to go, and it was exhilarating to watch the cards near the bottom removed one by one before the whole thing came tumbling down.

The books' main narrative largely covers an even more exciting one for this reader: the tension and relationships between the criminals and those charged with ensuring they pay for the damage they've caused. The line can so easily be blurred or forgotten when any party prioritises its own gains above the others. While you can understand the rationale for some decisions, they were ominously close to the outcome of the actions by the people under...

Australia on Apr 24, 2017

Stephan Campbell: James B. Stewart was an editor for The Wall Street Journal twenty-five years ago. In the role he was responsible for illuminating the criminal actions of some of the era’s eminent financiers including Dennis Levine, Michael Milken, and Ivan Boesky. His coverage of the misgivings––racketeering, fraud, insider trading, bribery––culminated with the book Den of Thieves, in which Stewart reveals Wall Street’s incendiary web of quid pro quo relationships built atop a tenuous groundwork of greed and mutually assured destruction.

Greed on Wall Street is a bromide and certainly not enough to drive a book. What makes Den of Thieves compelling is its attention to the peculiar genius required to satisfy one’s greed through Wall Street’s convoluted network of interpersonal belts, pulleys, and––of course––leverage.

Before providing elegant coverage of the group of financiers’ ignominious falls from grace, Den of Thieves sheds light on different kinds of manipulative genius that propelled men like Dennis Levine and Michael Milken to the industry’s pinnacle.

To place readers tableside during discussions between conspirators,...

United States on Jun 04, 2014

M. Strong: Den of Thieves is a snapshot of human nature showing its seemy side. Stewart's book has a cast of characters you couldn't believe if it were a work of fiction. The most brilliant thing about "Den of Thieves" is the range of villians in the book; no two come to their law-breaking in the same manner or embrace it to the same degree. All of them find temptation (usually in the form of large heaps of easy money) too hard to resist.

Stewart avoids the temptation to paint all of his law-breakers with the same brush and just focus in on the nuts and bolts of the story's timeline. Instead, he allows you to meet each individual and see how they became embroiled in Wall Street's worst scandal since the 1930s. You see some of the simple unrepentant scumbags you'd expect (Levine most closely fits the bill), but mostly you see more complex people. Milken comes off as a truly broken person who was never completely connected to reality in the same way most of us are. Most of the players come off as ordinary people who, on their own, would have cruised through their careers in uneventful fashion if not presented with a tempting, lawless option by a more proactive...

United States on Aug 15, 2005