The Wolf of Wall Street

Jordan Belfort

Hachette Australia, Jul 1, 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 544 pages

Now a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

'an incredible - and strangely compelling - story of shocking greed and power' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel.

From the binge that sank a 17-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king. Here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called 'The Wolf of Wall Street'.

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.

In this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power and excess no one could invent – the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down.

Also by Jordan Belfort is CATCHING THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, which tells of what happened next...

Praise for CATCHING THE WOLF OF WALL STREET:

'spankingly candid insights into sex, drugs and rocky stockbroking' GQ AUSTRALIA

About the author

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. His story is being made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. He is currently living in Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wolf of Wall Street
• Author: Jordan Belfort
• Publisher: Hachette Australia, 2010
• ISBN: 0733626807, 9780733626807
• Length: 544 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs