the wolf of wall street (english edition)  <p><b>stock market multimillionaire at 26. federal convict at 36. the iconic true story of greed, power and excess.</b><br /><b><br />the international bestseller and major movie sensation, directed by martin scorsese and starring leonardo dicaprio</b><br /><br /><i>&apos;what separates jordan&apos;s story from others like it, is the brutal honesty.&apos;</i> - <i>leonardo dicaprio</i><br /><br />by day he made thousands of dollars a minute. by night he spent it as fast as he could. from the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him for at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in jordan belfort&apos;s own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called <b>the wolf of wall street.</b><br /><br />in the 1990s jordan belfort became one of the most infamous names in american finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of wall street and into a massive office on long island. it&apos;s an extraordinary story of greed, power and excess no one could invent - and then it all came crashing down.<br /><br /><b>&apos;the outrageous memoirs of the real gordon gekko&apos; <i>daily mail</i></b><br /><b>&apos;reads like a cross between tom wolfe&apos;s <i>bonfire of the vanities </i>and scorsese&apos;s <i>goodfellas</i>&apos; <i>sunday times</i></b></p>