Swiss journalist Daniel Ammann has done the truly impossible. It was to him that Mark Rich - the billionaire, the legendary trader who changed the pattern of the global oil trade, "the most controversial businessman of all time" - once agreed to tell the story of his incredible life frankly. Over the years, he hid from American justice, made sensational deals to circumvent international sanctions, and even flew around the oil fields of Siberia in the early 1990s in a private jet chock-full of cash dollars in search of the best prices. An international bestseller, this book is the least typical story of a successful entrepreneur: full of risk, adventurous spirit and compelling stories you won't find in any other business biography.