Bitter Betrayal
Автор: Penny Jordan
Год издания: 0000
Penny Jordan needs no introduction as arguably the most recognisable name writing for Mills & Boon. We have celebrated her wonderful writing with a special collection, many of which for the first time in eBook format and all available right now.It happened all the time… Jenneth told herself she wasn't the only woman in the world to have been let down by the man she loved and expected to marry. She knew people went on to rebuild their lives and find lasting relationships. So why couldn't she put the past behind her?The fact that she still loved him was totally irrelevant now. But Luke Rathby wasn't the sort of man who was easily forgotten.And when he came back into Jenneth's life, he created havoc all over again…
The Devil's Casino. Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers
Автор: Vicky Ward
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The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage. A can't put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devil's Casino isn't fiction. Details what went on behind-the-scenes the weekend Lehman Brothers failed, as well as inside Lehman during the twenty years preceding it Describes the feudal culture that proved both Lehman's strength and its Achilles' heel Written by Vicky Ward, one of today's most connected business and finance writers On Wall Street, Lehman Brothers was cheekily known as «the cat with nine lives.» But as The Devil's Casino documents, this cat pushed its luck too far and died?the victim of men and women blinded by arrogance.