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The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the governments crackdown on insider-trading networksan investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions.In Circle of Friends, award-winning journalist Charles Gasparinoone of Wall Streets most knowledgeable observersfollows government investigators and prosecutors as they pursue one of the most aggressive and broad-reaching series of insider-trading cases in the nations 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.



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Charles Gasparino

Charles Gasparino is an on-air editor for CNBC, a columnist for the Daily Beast and the New York Post, and a freelance writer for Forbes and other publications. He previously wrote for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, where he covered issues on Wall Street, including pension funds, mutual funds, and regulatory issues. Gasparino has won numerous business journalism awards, and he is the author of Blood on the Street, which was a BusinessWeek bestseller and was listed by Barron's as one of the best business books of 2005, and King of the Club, which was named one of the best business books of 2007 by Library Journal.



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