Bad Paper - 9781250076335
Un libro in lingua di Jake Halpern edito da Picador USA, 2015
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"A trip to the underworld of debt collection, where bankers team up with ex-burglars and few rules apply Bad Paper is a riveting expose;, a moving story of an unlikely friendship, and a gritty narrative of how scrappy entrepreneurs profit from our debts. Jake Halpern introduces us to a former banking executive and a former armed robber who become partners and go in quest of "paper"--the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Halpern shows, the world of consumer debt collection is a wild and unregulated shadowland, where operators may misrepresent a debtor's situation, make illegal threats, and even lay claim to debts that are not theirs to collect in the first place. It is a realm of indelible individuals who possess a swagger and vocabulary that even David Mamet could not invent. Halpern follows his collectors as they intimidate competitors with weapons, manage high-pressure call centers, and scheme new ways to benefit from American's debt-industrial complex. He alsoexplores the history of collection agencies and reveals the human cost of a system that leaves hardworking Americans with little opportunity to retire their debts in a reasonable way. The result is a bravura work of storytelling that is also an importantconsciousness-raiser"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Bad Paper
- Sottotitolo: Inside the Secret World of Debt Collectors
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Jake Halpern
- Editore: Picador USA
- Collana: Picador USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 13 Ottobre '15
- Genere: TRUE CRIME
- Pagine: 240
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 0
- ISBN-10: 1250076331
- EAN-13: 9781250076335