Ben Mezrich Libri

From the celebrated, New York Times bestselling author comes the twisted thriller of an MIT grad student who unwittingly uncovers the hidden connection between the Gardner Museum heist and the most fascinating secret in American history. THE CARD SHARK: Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash to help pay her tuition when she's caught counting cards at the Encore casino in Boston. She grabs her winnings and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide . . . only to find a dead body. THE EX-CON: Recently released from prison, Nick Patterson hasn't felt hope in a long time, but the job he "inherited" in prison promises to change that. He enters hotel room 633 to find that the person he was supposed to meet has been murdered. Next to the corpse stands a terrified young woman--Hailey Gordon. THE PROFESSOR: American history professor Adrian Jensen learns of the death of his professional nemesis, Charles Walker, the night after he received Walker's latest research. Skeptical at first, Adrian nearly deletes the file. But when one small, new detail catches his eye, he makes it his mission to uncover what could be one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War. All three strangers find themselves on the cusp of an incredible discovery--one that someone is willing to kill to keep buried.

A group of frat brothers from Montana transformed their weekly poker game in a dive bar into a highly successful online company, showcasing their entrepreneurial spirit and the unexpected journey from casual gaming to business success. This larger-than-life true story highlights their challenges and triumphs in building one of the most profitable ventures in history.

Whilst exploring the ruins of a Greek temple, Professor Jack Grady receives an urgent phone call: his brother, a renowned mathematician, has been murdered. Jack must race from Brazil and Jordan to India and Peru in order to discover the secret that links the Seven Wonders of the World, before it's too late...

Fatal Flesh When moonlighting medical students "harvesting" skin from a corpse for temporary use accidentally take it from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic:a New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a bloodbath, and an elderly professor, admitted for a routine skin graft, is suddenly the city's most wanted fugitive. Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the only ones to suspect something more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files"--strange and inexplicable cases the Bureau wants to keep hidden--Mulder and Scully are determined to track down the forces they suspect are behind the murderer. While the police hunt the fleeing professor, Mulder and Scully track the skin that was grafted onto him, a trail that leads from the morgue to the headquarters of a cutting-edge biotech company to the jungles of Thailand. Together they begin to uncover an unholy and totally deniable alliance between a battle-trained plastic surgeon, international politicians, and a legendary Thai monster known as the "Skin-Eater."

After five weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list in hardcover, Mezrich's inside story of the young card-counting masterminds who took on Vegas is poised to reach an even wider audience in its new paperback edition.

Die Lektüre ist die literarische Darstellung der frühen Facebook-Jahre und erlaubt dem Leser Einsicht in die Motive hinter einem modernen Phänomen. Zusätzliche Texte, ausführliche Anmerkungen und weiterführende Literaturhinweise helfen dabei, Facebook im Kontext und größeren Zusammenhang zu verstehen.

Written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this title offers insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs.

After Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss reluctantly settled with Mark Zuckerberg for their contribution to the invention of The Facebook, they planned to take their fortune and set themselves up as a VC fund in Silicon Valley. They quickly discovered that no one would take their money, for fear of alienating their nemesis. Quite by accident, while nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they stumbled into a shady character who pointed out to them that Facebook, ironically, was now the establishment; if they wanted to be disrupters and make a true killing they needed to get in on the ground floor of a brand new idea: cryptocurrency. They started buying Bitcoin when it was $6 a coin. As of the publication of this book, it is trading at over $7000 a coin. On 26 November 2017, they became the first Bitcoin billionaires. From the Silk Road to the Dread Pirate Roberts to the halls of the Securities and Exchange commission to the headquarters of Facebook, Bitcoin Billionaires will take us on a wild and surprising ride while shining a bright light on an economic event that continues to baffle the average reader.

Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world. At its height, the group's online empire was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day. The industry they launched grew so huge so fast, and in such a grey area of US and international law, at first it was never really clear whether their actions were legal or criminal. From setting up their operations in Costa Rica, to their efforts at building a veil of legitimacy in Vancouver; from embracing a hedonistic lifestyle of girls, drugs and money to becoming some of the richest people in the world; from engaging in operations against their competitors that sometimes escalated into near all-out wars to the legal battles that finally resulted in one of them heading to prison and another living life on the run âe" Straight Flush is an exclusive look behind the headlines of one of the biggest stories of the past decade.

Exploring the world of Ivy League hedge-fund traders, this gripping narrative delves into high-stakes finance and the intricate connections to the Asian underworld. Ben Mezrich weaves a tale filled with ambition, risk, and the unique culture of elite investors, offering readers an insider's look at the thrilling and often dangerous intersections of wealth and power.