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Review : A high octane thriller
This is not a novel but it is every bit as gripping as any thriller you are likely to pick up.
It was just a question of time before someone wrote a book about these historical business events and Anita Raghavan just happened to be the first. I am sure that there will be other books, possibly many other books but they will have a high bar to cross because Raghavan's book is so darn good - meticulously researched and compellingly written.
There is no doubt that the business events discussed are highly significant. The former head of the world's premier consulting firm, who was on the board of many blue chip firms including the pre-eminent financial juggernaut, freely giving privileged information to a shady hedge fund operator - this is not an everyday scenario. Or maybe it is but it was certainly a deep secret and no other comparable case has surfaced as yet.
This is an important business story by any yardstick. But there is a sub-text - many of the...
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Description : Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now...The collapse of the Galleon Group--a hedge fund that managed more than $7 billion in assets--from criminal charges of insider trading was a sensational case that pitted prosecutor Preet Bharara, himself the son of Indian immigrants, against the best and brightest of the South Asian business community. At the center of the case was self-described King of Kings, Galle...
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