Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. a hell of a read." -- Kirkus Reviews. . .
Belfort has the Midas touch." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives." -- Forbes "A cross between Tom Wolfe\'s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese\'s GoodFellas . . .
Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street "Raw and frequently hilarious." -- The New York Times "A rollicking tale ofJordan Belfort\'s] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont .
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.
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.
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.
By night he spent it as fast as he could.
Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By day he made thousands of dollars a minute
