Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff [Paperback]

“Accurate and highly readable.”

—Wall Street Journal

Emmy award-winning journalist Andrew Kirtzman, explores “The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff” inBetrayal—an in-depth, personal look at the architect of the biggest financial fraud in history. TheNew York TimescallsBetrayal,“a novelistic, you-are-there sort of narrative,” and the shocking story of the King of the Swindlers—and his hundreds of celebrity and corporation victims, and the everyday people who tragically invested their life savings with him—does indeed read like a page-turning thriller. But it’s all amazingly, disturbingly true.

This is the story of the greatest con in financial history—one that has commanded the attention of the entire world from the day the news broke on December 11, 2008. Bernard Madoff's financial scheming roped in thousands of victims, ranging from boldfaced names—Steven Spielberg, Mortimer Zuckerman, Kevin Bacon, Elie Wiesel—to ordinary people who saw their nest eggs disappear in a smoke-and-mirrors debacle. The Enron machinations pale beside the havoc that Madoff created in people's lives. Who is this Bernie Madoff? A shady con man? A sociopath? Al³+