The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran,#xA0;Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and#xA0;apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the#xA0;Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts#xA0;by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally. This sure-to-make-headlines book is the first no-holds-barred biography of Rich, who was famously#xA0;pardoned by Bill Clinton, and resurfaced in the news during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Eric Holder.#xA0;It sheds stunning new light on#xA0;one of the most controversial international businessmen of all time, charting Rich's rise from the Holocaust, which he fled as a young boy, to become the wealthiest and most powerful oil and commodities trader of the century. From his earliest trading days#xA0;to the#xA0;present,#xA0;Marc Rich's story is astonishing and compelling.