{"product_id":"9780312610531","title":"The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Magnificently and heartbreakingly told. . . . [Hudson] shows vividly that really filthy, face-to-face fraud and hard-sell bullying . . . brought the economy down around our ears.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this page-turning, true-crime exposé, award-winning reporter Michael W. Hudson reveals the story of the rise and fall of the biggest subprime lender and Wall Street's biggest patron of subprime: Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers. They did more than any other institutions to produce the biggest financial scandal in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a tale populated by a remarkable cast of characters: a shadowy billionaire who created the subprime industry out of the ashes of the 1980s S\u0026amp;L scandal; insatiable Wall Street executives; ensnared home owners; investigators who tried to expose the fraud; politicians who turned a blind eye; and, most of all, the drug-snorting, high-living salesman who tell all about the money they made, the lies they told, the deals they closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative and gripping, \u003ci\u003eThe Monster\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing look at the bottom-feeding fraud and top-down greed that fueled the financial collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015774912752,"sku":"9780312610531","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312610531_p0.jpg?v=1769888669","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312610531","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}