Money to Burn: Leon Black, Apollo and the Remaking of Wall Street

From the bestselling author of House of Cards and Power Failure comes the turbulent tale of Apollo, a powerful and controversial financial empireApollo Global Management, one of the world’s most formidable investment firms, has thrived in private equity and private credit, delivering staggering returns through aggressive takeovers and bold, contrarian bets.Blending gripping narrative with meticulous reporting, Money to Burn offers a spectacular investigation into this controversial and powerful financial empire, where the billionaires at the top have brought the same appetite for risk at work to their chaotic personal lives. Rising from the ashes of Drexel Burnham Lambert after the junk bond crisis in the 1980s, Apollo - under the leadership of Leon Black, its brilliant and fearsome billionaire founder - has come to epitomize the new Wall Street for more than three decades.But, in 2021, Black resigned. His dramatic downfall, due in part to his close personal and business relationship w