The Grand Scam by Rob Rose (Used)

In the four years since the Ponzi scheme was outed, many of the sordid details that saw nearly 1000 investors swindled out of more than R12 billion, have come to light. Reading through Rose’s crafted account of events, you can imagine a massive whiteboard of faces and figures, connected via a red cotton spider web of deceit, hovering over the author as he painstakingly puts the pieces of the sham together for us. It’s the first thing that strikes you about the book, the level of detail Rose is able to describe, after what must have been countless hours of research and interviews. Clearly this is more than just a collection of previously written articles sewn together under the carrot of a book deal, like many other works based on headline-grabbing events.

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