Circle of Friends

The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the government's crackdown on insider-trading networks--an investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions.In Circle of Friends, award-winning journalist Charles Gasparino--one of Wall Street's most knowledgeable observers--follows government investigators and prosecutors as they pursue one of the most aggressive and broad-reaching series of insider-trading cases in the nation's history. A richly textured page-turner of investigative journalism based on extensive reporting, Circle of Friends chronicles the massive federal crackdown that has already put some of the biggest names on Wall Street behind bars, including Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and Rajat Gupta, a former CEO of consulting giant McKinsey & Co. Other similarly sized targets are still waiting nervously, including the biggest one of them all--financial impresario Steve Cohen of SAC...