When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began. First published in 1982, this now classic story of greed and lies in Tinseltown appears here with a stunning final chapter on Begelman's post-Columbia career as he continued to dazzle and defraud . . . until his last hours in a Hollywood hotel room, where his story dramatically and poignantly would end.

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials)

Business & Money

McClintick, David

Biography & History

Harper Business

Recounts the scandal at Columbia Pictures that began with the studio president David Begelman's forgery of a ten thousand dollar check

Indecent Exposure

Economics

Dell

ABSOLUTELY MIND-BOGGLING AND FASCINATING THROUGHOUT...As if McClintock were the proverbial fly-on-the-wall, he makes us witnesses. THE BEST AND MOST BRUTAL BOOK OF ITS KIND...McClintock has achieved what Capote established...the methodical point-by-point of it, with the voice of a writer of fiction..The dialogue is utterly awesome. BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN, TOTALLY ENGROSSING. EXPLOSIVE...Enthralling, suspenseful, and heroic. David McClintick roiled Hollywood and Wall Street with his stunning account of high-placed chicanery and cover-up that made Indecent Exposure a smashing international bestseller. Now, after a decade of international bestseller. Now, after a decade of investigative reporting, he brings us another explosive inside story-a story of clashing wills and multiple betrayals that threatened to destory one of the United States government's most ambitious undercover operations. Operation Swordfish was launched secretly in 1981 after the federal government, desperate to stop the narcotics epidemic, devised a fundamental change in strategy. Leaving street-level drug policing to local authorities, the Department of Justice and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration decided to attack the drug barons themselves along their most vital arteries: a serpentine network of banks and corporations through which they manipulated their vast profits. To lure the money, the DEA created a bogus international investment firm in Miami. But to cultivate the trust of the Colombian drug mafia, the agency needed an unusual spy. How Robert Darias, a Cuban emigre and CIA-trained Bay of Pigs officer, led the DEA to the heart of the mafia's tangled and violent network, and how the DEA ultimately "rewarded" him, is a story of deception and betrayal on many levels.

Swordfish

Random House Value Publishing

An account of the U.S. government's only successful attempt to penetrate the highest levels of Colombia's drug world provides inside details of the narcotics operation and a provocative expose+a7 of the DEA. By the author of Indecent Exposure. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

SWORDFISH: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pantheon

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street

William Morrow & Co.

Reveals how the Tulsa-based Home-Stake Production Company cheated businessmen, celebrities, and politicians out of millions of dollars

Stealing from the Rich: The Story of the Swindle of the Century

Politics & Government

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street

Quill

Indecent Exposure: True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street

McClintick, David, Stealing From The Rich: The Home-Stake Oil Swindle

Stealing From the Rich

Finance

M. Evans and Company, Inc.

Tantor Audio

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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (Collins Business Essentials)

Indecent Exposure

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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street

Stealing from the Rich: The Story of the Swindle of the Century

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street

Indecent Exposure: True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street

Stealing From the Rich

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street