num_pages: 256
description: Dale Paul is the hedge fund whale gambling away other peoples money for his own enrichment. As long as this delusion is shared  the same delusion that makes it possible for predatory capitalism to succeed  Dale Paul and his friends are living out another Gilded Age. However charm and boarding school connections arent enough to save Dale Paul from jail time. When his biggest gamble  involving the pensions of the American military  fails many of those who trusted him find themselves living on the street or in their cars. While incarcerated he has a choice: repair his fractured relationships with his family and become a new man or throw himself into another deadly high-stakes scheme in an attempt to make himself rich again. A fascinating account of a Toronto-born tycoon jailed for fraud in an upstate New York prison that feels like a backstage pass into the minds of the con men we are constantly reading about in the news.The Dead Celebrities Club is a must read for the dead pool generation. K.J. Mullins newz4u.caSusan Swan's salacious new novel THE DEAD CELEBRITIES CLUB is a tale of greed hubris and fraud  and the fallout that follows. In other words it's a financial fable worthy of the age.  The Globe and MailSusan Swan's new protagonist Dale Paul is a self-obsessed hedge fund guy with a poncy way of speaking and a penchant for playing fast and loose with other people's money. Yes he's terrible but he's also a terrific character and the reason you will want to keep turning the pages on Swan's latest novel THE DEAD CELEBRITIES CLUB. Post Media
language: English
title: The Dead Celebrities Club
publisher: Cormorant Books