The Insiders by Mark Stevens

The Insiders

The Truth Behind the Scandal Rocking Wall Street

by Mark Stevens

Harrap, 1987, [First Edition], ISBN 0245546138, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping, a little creasing and chipping (see photographs)

“When the Guinness insider trading scandal erupted a few mons ago, an extraordinary complex international network was discovered, linking most of the financial centres of the world.  Chief among these was New York and its powerful Stock Exchange.  One man emerged as the manipulator, the man who had made possible Guinness’s takeover of Distillers.  That man was Ivan Boesky, the most successful “arbitrager” in the world.  The Insiders tells the story of how this now disgraced but once enormously influential figure operated on Wall Street, and how he co-opted a young ambitious trader at the high-flying firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Dennis Levine, using information provided by Levine to trade in stocks of companies that were “in play”, making  quite fantastic profits in the process.”