A few more books to close out the summer:
The Most Dangerous Trade -- The subtitle is How Short Sellers Uncover Fraud, Keep Markets Honest, and Make and Lose Billions and the author is Richard Teitelbaum (2015). With each chapter dedicated to one of the most famous and successful short sellers, it confirms the notion that this type of investing is truly trench warfare, describing the need to do forensic accounting and withstanding the heat of being labelled as the bad guy of the Wall Street universe (which means truly being the scum of the universe to most).
Once Upon A Time in Russia -- The subtitle is The Rise of the Oligarchs and the author is Ben Mezrich (2015). A somewhat fictionalized version of true events, it takes the reader to the emergence of the oligarchs after the fall of the Soviet Union, focusing on the story of Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. A tale in which there is tremendous wealth and ambition, but few characters who could be characterized as good guys.
