Ben Mezrich Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to its Knees. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the financial establishment. It started on a subreddit forum called WallStreetBets - a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment tips, laughed about big losses and posted diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop - a flailing bricks and mortar video-game retailer - and somehow rode a rocket ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight, simultaneously triggering unfathomable losses for one of the most respected funds on the street. In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose, DUMB MONEY (previously published as THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK) offers a fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who captivated the world during one of the most volatile weeks in financial history. It's the amazing story of what just happened - and where we go from here.

A rollicking, character-driven narrative by bestselling author Ben Mezrich, Breaking Twitter pulls back the curtain on the biggest business story of our time.

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.

*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to its Knees. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet trolls took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to upend the financial establishment. It started on a subreddit forum called WallStreetBets - a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment tips, laughed about big losses and posted diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop - a flailing bricks and mortar video-game retailer - and somehow rode a rocket ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight, simultaneously triggering unfathomable losses for one of the most respected funds on the street. In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose, DUMB MONEY (previously published as THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK) offers a fascinating, never-before-seen glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who captivated the world during one of the most volatile weeks in financial history. It's the amazing story of what just happened - and where we go from here.

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.

Exploring the thrilling concept of genetic restoration, this narrative delves into the science behind bringing the woolly mammoth back to life. With a fast-paced style reminiscent of a thriller, the book intertwines historical elements with contemporary scientific endeavors, offering a captivating glimpse into the possibilities of de-extinction. It raises intriguing questions about nature and the implications of manipulating genetics, making for a thought-provoking read.

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.

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...

Napínavá detektivka plná historických záhad, tajných společenství a intrik, která hledá odpověď na jednu otázku: Má sedm starověkých divů světa něco společného s těmi novověkými? A existovaly skutečně Amazonky? Když je v podzemní počítačové laboratoři jedné americké univerzity zavražděn samotářský matematik Jeremy Grady, je na jeho bratru Jackovi, aby přišel na to, proč Jeremy musel zemřít. Co znamená odštěpek starobylé slonoviny, nalezený v hrudi mrtvého? A co s tím má společného obrázek, který Jack našel na bratrově flashce a na němž jsou vyobrazeni dva hadi propletení ve dvojité šroubovici? Tisíce mil odtud pátrá botanička Sloane Costaová v temných tunelech pod římským Koloseem po vzácných rostlinných druzích. Najde však něco mnohem podivnějšího: obraz dvou hadů spletených do dvojité šroubovice a segment bronzového hada, který se zdá být součástí něčeho mnohem většího. Jack a Sloane se setkávají a společně se vydávají hledat pravdu. Na dlouhé cestě – z Brazílie do Indie, Peru i dalších zemí - postupně odkrývají tajemství, jež spojuje sedm novodobých divů světa, a odhalují jakousi cestovní mapu k bájné zahradě Eden. Čím blíže se dostávají k odhalení konečné pravdy, tím intenzivněji jsou pronásledováni ženskými vražedkyněmi, které se podivuhodně podobají mytickým Amazonkám.

Americký sen, který začal partičkou pokeru v jednom zapadlém baru, pokračoval vybudováním miliardového podniku a skončil vězením. Tak by se dal ve zkratce popsat jeden z nejdivočejších podnikatelských příběhů posledního desetiletí, který pomocí četných rozhovorů a svědeckých výpovědí zrekonstruoval uznávaný autor Ben Mezrich. V knize Čistá postupka líčí, jak přátelé z vysoké školy Garin, Shane, Hilt, Pete, Scott a Brent založili pokerové impérium AbsolutePoker.com, internetovou stránku provozující on-line poker, která jim v dobách největší slávy vydělávala více než milion dolarů denně. Exotický ráj Kostariky, krásné ženy, rychlá auta, večírky a spousta peněz – to byla divoká jízda Absolute Pokeru, která však neměla trvat dlouho. Poté, co vláda Spojených států přijala nový zákon potírající internetové hazardní hry, byl Absolute Poker postaven před osudné rozhodnutí – vzdát to, nebo vsadit všechno na jedinou kartu…

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.

'Sex on the Moon' is the amazing true story of the 35-year-old genius who convinced NASA interns to help him steal Apollo moon rocks from every moon landing in history.

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - 'The Facebook' - and watched as it spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along with their popularity. Yet amidst the dizzying levels of cash and glamour, as silicon valley, venture capitalists and reams of girls beckoned, the first cracks in their friendship started to appear, and what began as a simple argument spiralled into an out-and-out war. The great irony is that Facebook succeeded by bringing people together - but its very success tore two best friends apart.

This nail-biting chronicle follows an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses that legally takes Las Vegas casinos for over $3 million. Filled with tense action, high stakes, and incredibly close calls, this true story has been adapted by Columbia/Tri-Star and Sony Pictures for a feature film, starring Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne, slated for release on March 21st.

Recounts the story of how a notorious gang of MIT blackjack savants devised and received backing for a system for winning at the world's most sophisticated casinos, an endeavor that earned them more than three million dollars.

From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House , Rigged is the startling, rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange.Black Gold. Texas Tea. Everybody wants oil but only a rare few have truly made a killing mastering its intricacies. One of those lucky bastards is Johnny Castino, a ballsy Italian-American from Brooklyn with an ego and a keen intelligence to match his ambition. Rigged is his a startling rags-to-riches tale of an ordinary kid turned Harvard grad who found himself caught up in the ultimate high-stakes adventure filled with money, sex, exotic locales, life-threatening danger, and extraordinary international consequences. Moving from the streets of Brooklyn to Dubai, Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Jakarta, Moscow, and Shanghai, Rigged reveals how the business is run and what happened when a man with solid gold cajones decided to flip a business—and an entire Exchange—on its head.

Semyon Dukach was known as the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that had nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before. Dukach and his fellow MIT students hit Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Aruba, Barcelona, London, and Monte Carlo, making millions. They came in hard, with stacks of cash; big, seemingly insane bets; women hanging on their arms; and fake identities. While they were taking classes and studying for exams during the week, over the weekends they stormed the blackjack tables, only to be banned from casinos, harassed, on the wrong end of guns, and beaten in the notorious back rooms of casinos. The stakes were high, the dangers very real, but the players were up to the challenges, the consequences be damned. In the classroom, they were geeks. On the casino floor, they were unstoppable. "Busting Vega$" is Dukach's unbelievably true story; a riveting account of monumental greed, excess, hubris, sex, love, violence, fear, and statistics that is high-stakes entertainment at its best.

For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name was Semyon Dukatch, and stories swirled in his wake. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely- he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine. The Darling of Las Vegas quickly became a legend in the casino world. He is the only person banned from the island of Aruba. He was held, at gunpoint, in a cave in Monte Carlo and told that if he ever returned, he'd be murdered. And he made millions of dollars playing blackjack, using three simple techniques that gave him the edge, techniques that are revealed in this book for the first time. This is his story, the ultimate true story of Las Vegas, the book Vegas doesn't want you to read...

Skutečný příběh mladých géniů rozhodovali o stamilionových ochodech ze zákulisí luxusních hotelů, kaváren i nevěstinců Malcom byl hvězdou univerzitního ragbyového týmu. Ačkoli snil o profesionální sportovní kariéře, byl si dobře vědom, že pro ni nemá fyzické předpoklady. Proto se dlouho nerozmýšlel, když mu Nick -- s nímž se setkal jedinkrát v životě -- telefonicky nabídl skvěle placenou, blíže nespecifikovanou práci. Sbalí si jen pár nejnutnějších věcí a vydá se na opačnou stranu zeměkoule. Postřeh a pevné nervy z tvrdého sportu se mu v novém zaměstnání rozhodně sejdou. Rychle se naučí orientovat v divokém trhu financí, využívat skulinky nedokonalého sytému a pod rukama mu protékají milióny jenů, dolarů, liber... Stane se svědkem a snad i účastníkem toho, jak závratné obchodování na Nikkei, japonské burze, položilo i nejstarší anglickou banku Barrings. Po hlavě se vrhá do zběsilého víru proslulých erotických klubů, rychlých motorek, hektolitrů šampaňského a užívá si životního stylu rockových hvězd. Zlom přichází, když se Malcolm zamiluje do Sajo, dcery majitele jednoho z nočních podniků. V sedmadvaceti letech začne připravovat největší obchod své kariéry, a dost možná i světového trhu, který by mu umožnil "odejít do důchodu". Zdá se, že mu všechno vychází; transakce se slibně rozbíhá, Sajo jeho lásku opětuje a její otec dokonce souhlasí se sňatkem, jenže po Malcolmovi "zatouží" i japonská mafie Yakuza...

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.

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.

In Boston sterben neun Anwälte während einer Konferenzschaltung, in Vermont eine junge Frau vor dem Fernseher, und es scheint kein Ende abzusehen. Gerade noch rechtzeitig stoßen die junge Virologin Samantha Craig und der Chirurg Nick Barnes auf eine grauenhafte Spur: Ein neues tödliches Virus verbreitet sich über Bildschirme jeder Art.

Robin bittet ihren Exfreund Jeremy, sie bei den Nachforschungen über den mysteriösen Tod ihres Vaters zu unterstützen. Er hat keine Ahnung, in welche Gefahr er sich begibt, denn schon bald ist er in eine düstere Verschwörung verstrickt. Welches teuflische Spiel wird hier gespielt? Produktion von gentechnischen Waffen oder Manipulation am menschlichen Erbgut?§Nervenkitzel von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite.

FILE 7 Het gebruik van huid van lijken voor de tijdelijke hulp aan slachtoffers met brandwonden is een gebruikelijke procedure. Maar als een team van medische studenten per ongeluk huid van een verkeerde donor verwijdert, zijn de resultaten even mysterieus als rampzalig. Agenten Mulder en Scully vrezen dat er meer aan de hand is dan een mislukte medische procedure. Zij ontdekken dat de huid uit het mortuarium afkomstig is van een verlaten biotech lab in het slachthuis. Vervolgens vinden ze een link met de'Lone Gunmen' van de FBI in Washington. Deze bevestigen hun angstige vermoeden: er bestaat een verband met de oorlog in Zuidoost-Azië, waar napalmslachtoffers werden behandeld en verbazingwekkend snel herstelden, hoewel geen van hen ooit in de familieschoot terugkeerde .... In Thailand ontmaskeren ze een verbond tussen een strijdvaardige plastisch chirurg, de geheime harde kern van het Pentagon en een legendarisch Thais monster dat bekend staat onder de naam'Skin-Eater'. The X-Files, winnaar van de Golden Globe Award voor de beste tv-serie, brengt messcherpe sensatie en door merg en been gaande spanning. Elke leugen die aan het licht komt sleept je dieper mee in de samenzwering, totdat je niet meer weet wie je kunt vertrouwen en wie niet.