The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals

At the Height of the Roaring twenties, Ivar Kreuger was one of the richest men in the world. Through an ingenious plan to sell stakes in foreign matchstick monopolies to American investors flush with cash, he built up a tremendous enterprise, paying impressive dividends to his investors. His company, International Match, was one of the few to survive the Crash of 1929 unscathed.

But shortly after Kreuger's death in 1932, it became clear that the great financier was not all he had seemed…