Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The author is an investment banker (which is like herpes so there's no such thing as a "former" investment banker - you always have "it") so I can understand how he can turn thieves into heroes. Trouble is that investment bankers destroyed our economy - not making anything, not building anything, not hiring workers - just grabbing a couple of dimes on every dollar of any deal that they could devise. In this instance, Mickey is a convicted financier who's out and trying to recover some of his former fortune and avenge his wife's betrayal by generating a larcenous enterprise - teaming up with another convict who was part of a pump and dump penny-stock fraud - frauds that lost money for decent, trusting (but greedy) folks. In other words, these two are scumbags of the first order. Worse still, Mickey is not believable. What corrupt financier (think Boesky or Milken) didn't hide a ton of dough, pay his fine, serve his time and get out with a still vast fortune? And Mickey stole BILLIONS and comes home with a few grand in his pocket? Lender can't have it both ways. If you thought Tony Soprano was a swell guy and a good family man (and completely missed the irony), you'll be OK with this book. Lender is getting better - I'll give him that - but the fundamental flaws in his characters can't be avoided. Bit like his other book that built on the proposition that vaccines cause autism - a completely false and dangerous, unscientific theory. Even that dope Jenny McCarthy gave that one up, but rich boneheads are still not vaccinating their children, exposing all of us to dreadful afflictions that were wiped out back in the 1950s. Dose of polio, anyone? This guy is dangerous - doing with a pen what he used to do with a computer. Certainly have to suspect some padded 5-star reviews as well.