"In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj--the largest private-equity failure in history--and the face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"-- The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Arif Naqvi was the key man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make...

"In 1998, Dominique Mielle joined Canyon Partners, then a small, little-known hedge fund. The job was trading distressed securities and high yield bonds, known back then, respectively, as vulture investing and junk bonds. Over the span of two decades, she rose to the top of the firm as the only female partner and senior portfolio manager--in what became one of the largest hedge funds in the U.S. Damsel in distressed explores the inner workings of...