Bernie Mailed was a king of the financial world. He'd helped create NASDAQ and founded one of the most successful brокег-dealers in the induslry. He was also a beloved philanthropist. But very few people knew about his side business: he was quietly running the largest hedge fund in the world, a fund that eventually spread to over forty nations and handled tens of billions of dollars. Harry Markopolos was a quant. a little-known number cruncher sitting at a desk at a Boston equity derivatives firm analyzing investment products. When a marketer for that firm Frank Casey, handed Harry a prospectus outlining Madoff's strategy and asked him to create a similar product, he sat down and looked al the numbers. Literally within minutes Harry knew it was imposible to do. The numbers didn't add up. For the next ten years, Harry Markopolos and the investigative team he recruited tried desperately to warn the government, the induslry. and the financial press that the largest and most successful hedge fund in the industry was a total fraud and that the respected and admired Bernie Madoff was a crook. But no one would listen.