Everybody loves a good old blood-and-gore story. But some of the most heinous crimes don’t see so much as a single flesh wound being inflicted. Their stories are just as full of avarice, the criminals as arrogant in their belief that they’re too smart to be caught. Only tireless, sometimes inspired, investigation brings them, if you’ll pardon the pun, to book. Here are five books that give you the sordid details of some of world’s most notorious financial crimes ever
Den of Thieves
James B. Stewart, Simon & Schuster
(This story appears in the 08 October, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)