Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and un - publicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, Fidel Castro’s Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Giuliani) and nearcomical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally. This sure-to-break-international-news book, based on more than 30 hours of interviews, is the first no-holds-barred biography of Rich, who was famously pardoned by Bill Clinton, and resur - faced in the news during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Eric Holder. It sheds stunning new light on one of the most controversial international businessmen of all time, chart - ing Rich’s rise from the Holocaust, which he fled as a young boy, to become the wealthiest and most powerful oil and com - modities trader of the century. From his earliest trading days to the present, Marc Rich’s story is astonishing and compelling.