Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6442282092
EAN: 9780061252730
ISBN: 0061252735
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Sales Rank: 79058
Studio: Harper Perennial

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn decides to take on the testosterone-fueled Merc Exchange in lower Manhattan—where billions of dollars in oil money trade hands every week and where fistfights are known to break out on the trading floor.



Soon our hero is living the good life in the gold-lined hotel palaces of Dubai and on private yachts in Monte Carlo, teeming with half-naked girls flown in by Saudi sheikhs, and making deals in the dangerous back alleys of Beijing. But that's only the beginning. Taken under the wing of another young gun and partnering with a mysterious young Muslim, the kid embarks on a dangerous adventure to revolutionize the oil trading industry—and, along with it, the world.



This is a true story.






Rating: - Excellent and Captivating
I absolutely give Rigged 5 stars. I very much enjoyed the style (non-fiction novel). Hearing how Nick and Khaled set up the energy exchange in Dubai was captivating. I'm 24 and hope someday to go to HBS. I am an entrepreneur and investor and have been to Dubai. The book was certainly more 'targeted' to my demographic. Perhaps it allowed me to dream and think just a bit bigger. For ambitious and driven individuals in their 20s it's an exciting and informative read.

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Rating: - a remedial attempt
this is a rather lame attempt of writing a fresh story about the trade of oil in Dubai. It is choppy and collge freshman like in its approach. I struggled thru this.

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Rating: - Love the book, the story is very real
The storyline is smoothly layed out and very real. Interesting book and I loved the "brining down the house" by this author as well.

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Rating: - Just slightly better than completely useless
I picked up this book hoping it might be something on the order of "Liars Poker" or "Barbarians at the Gates" or "The Pay Pal Wars," books that imparted huge amounts of information about the businesses that they covered. Boy, was I ever disappointed.

Mezrich's characters are suitable for comic books, the business concepts he imparts are perhaps the level that would be explained to fourth-graders on a field trip, and the plot is close to non-existent. I'd say his writing is boring but ... Read More

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Rating: - rigged
A page turning book about a 25 year old guy from Harvard Business School who goes to work on the New York mercantile exchange trading oil. The book details his young and fast paced life, including the money, women, and exotic travel he encounters along the way. It takes you along in his journeys back and forth to Dubai (as part of an attempt to open an energy exchange there) and the opulence he encounters while there. I was fascinated by the authors accounts of the city, and it enabled me to paint ... Read More

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