{"product_id":"the-price-of-experience-paperback","title":"The Price of Experience - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandall Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sullivan has done what every aspiring true crime writer hopes to do: He has crossed the line from titillation into cultural history.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe shocking story of Joe Hunt and the downfall of the Billionaire Boys Club -- from social investing group to Ponzi scheme to murderers -- told in a propulsive narrative by Randall Sullivan, now updated with a new afterword and soon to be a CNN miniseries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it first came to the public's attention in the fall of 1986, the story of the Billionaire Boys Club and its leader, Joe Hunt, a young man labeled a \"yuppie Charles Manson\" by the prosecutor was splashed across headlines and TV screens throughout the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of rich kids, flagrant excess, and multiple murders fascinated the American public, but deeper truths lay buried beneath. The saga was so complex that neither its scope nor its implications could be clearly discerned--that is, until \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Experience \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scholarship student with a strange father and a mysterious background, Joe was socially shunned at the ultra-elite Harvard School in Los Angeles. By age twenty, however, Joe had made and lost $14 million on Chicago's commodities exchange. Back in L.A., he dazzled former classmates with his power and confidence, assembling them into the BBC Consolidated of North America, Inc. - part corporate empire and part private social club. Joe convinced the children of L.A.'s most powerful families that all the wealth, status, and power in the world was theirs for the taking. They gave him their trust funds and a loyalty he transformed into cultish devotion. Hunt and the BBC became the talk of L.A. - not only for the meteoric rise that brought them control of more than $100 million in assets, but for the grisly murders connected to the group. As the group's deadly momentum increased and its business dealings spun out of control, BBC members began to talk, and eventually Hunt and four others were arrested on two counts of murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this utterly gripping narrative, award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan finally revealed the whole story. Now, in the new afterword, he returns to Joe Hunt--who has now been in prison for almost forty years--and recounts the fates of his accomplices. This is a landmark true-crime book with a diabolical, but almost irresistibly seductive, genius at its center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRandall Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e was a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e for over twenty years. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGraveyard of the Pacific, Dead Wrong, The Price of Experience, LAbyrinth, The Miracle Detective, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Untouchable\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been published in, among many other places, \u003ci\u003eWired, Esquire, Outside, Men's Journal, Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.7 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52802082832691,"sku":"9780802165343","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QdHi-brsyY9780802165343.webp?v=1764799242","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-price-of-experience-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}