The Wolf of Wall Street

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a ＄700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfort's own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. It's an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions--until it all came crashing down.

Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street

"Raw and frequently hilarious."--The New York Times

"A rollicking tale of Jordan Belfort's] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives."--Forbes

"A cross between Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese's GoodFellas . . . Belfort has the Midas touch."--The Sunday Times (London)

"Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell of a read."--Kirkus Reviews

作者簡介

喬登．貝爾福（Jordan Belfort）

　　貝爾福30歲就被《富比世》雜誌譽為「股市中的羅賓漢」，這位華爾街金童靠著遊走法律、甚至觸犯法律的手法，最快在3分鐘內賺進1,200萬美元。1997年，他的公司史崔頓歐克蒙（Stratton Oakmont）遭國家證券交易商聯合會除名，原因是詐騙客戶。隨及被聯邦政府指控犯有詐騙罪並被送進監獄。

　　監獄限制了他的自由，同時也給他帶來靈感，他決定寫一本自傳。這本書與其說是自傳，更像是一本娛樂小說，除了令人瞠目結舌的賺錢（以及花錢）方式外，喝酒、吸毒、嫖妓、洗錢、商業陰謀......等各種好萊塢情節，更是無一不缺，上市後果然立即吸引布萊德彼特、李奧納多爭相競標電影版權，後來由史柯西斯和李奧納多這對黃金拍檔拿下，並著手籌拍，上映時間指日可待。

　　Jordan Belfort was born in Queens, New York. He hustled ices to put himself through college, showing early entrepreneurial flair. His first business sent him bankrupt at twenty-four so he went down to Wall St with ＄100 in his pocket and ended up building one of the largest brokerages in America - the now infamous Stratton Oakmont. A hard partying lifestyle ended in crash and burn. Ultimately indicted by the federal government, Belfort served twenty-two months in prison, and time in rehab. He's now a highly successful motivational speaker. He is currently living in Los Angeles.