![]() ![]() The “whale” of the title is slang for a high-rolling gambler, an apt description of Low. Many American readers will not have a solid background in Malaysian affairs a strength of this account is the authors’ explication of how Malaysian culture and politics helped enable Low to carry out his schemes. Much of the book is set in the United States, where Low attended college, resided part-time, and identified his credulous marks, which included dealmakers at the mammoth Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs, among many others. By age 30, Low had fooled even sophisticated international bankers into investing billions of dollars into fraudulent companies he created. ![]() The fraud centers on one man, Malaysian-born Jho Low, who by age 20 had begun figuring out how lies about his own background, combined with careful study of international financial markets, could enrich him. Wall Street Journal reporters Wright and Hope tell the story of a massive international financial scandal they initially exposed in the newspaper in 2015, reporting that made them finalists for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. ![]()
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