<p><em>Ugly Americans</em> is the true story of John Malcolm a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets.</p><p>Without speaking a word of Japanese with barely a penny in his pocket Malcolm was thrown into the bizarre life of an ex-pat trader. Surrounded by characters ripped right out of a Hollywood thriller he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world -- at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever known.</p><p>Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank -- the oldest in England. He was the right-hand man to an enigmatic and brilliant hedge-fund cowboy Dean Carney and grew into one of the biggest derivatives traders in all of Asia. Along the way Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of a Yakuza gangster built a vast fortune out of thin air and came head to head with violent Japanese mobsters. Malcolm and his twentysomething Ivy League-schooled colleagues rode the crashing waves of the Asian markets during the mid-to late 1990s culminating in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before or since.</p><p>A real-life mixture of Liar’s Poker and Wall Street brimming with intense action romance underground sex vivid locales and exotic characters <em>Ugly Americans</em> is the untold true story that will rock the financial community and redefine an era.</p>
