Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History

The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21 and The Accidental Billionaires the basis for the Academy Awardwinning film The Social Network delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry, and betrayal among mega-wealthy Russian oligarchs—and its international repercussions. Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the larger-than-life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the waves of privatization to reap riches after the fall of the Soviet regime Godfather of the Kremlin Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician whose first entrepreneurial venture was running an automobile reselling business, and Roman Abramovich, his dashing young protégé who built a multi-billion-dollar empire of oil and aluminum.