Description: "Rigged" is the startling true story of David Russo, a rags-to-riches tale of a Brooklyn kid turned Harvard grad. He took on the old-world hierarchy and its powerful, monied kings, and set out to do the impossible--to build an energy exchange in the middle of the Arab world.
Brief description:
Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. He has published twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies in twelve languages and became the basis for the Kevin Spacey movie 21. Mezrich has also published the national bestsellers Sex on the Moon, Ugly Americans, Rigged, and Busting Vegas. He lives in Boston.
Review Quotes:
"Gripping and stylish, Rigged keeps the reader moving through its pages at the pace of its characters' Ferraris and luxury jets. Crafting a narrative with vivid energy and scope, Ben Mezrich records another flash point between tradition and transformation. This is living history." - -- Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and The Poe Shadow