Instant Millionaires

In this book you will meet three dozen impatient people.
They weren't satisfied with the slow, plodding, money-
saving route to financial security, the safe route that
most of us feel stuck with. They wanted instant wealth -
and they got it. As Max Gunther points out, our folklore
frowns on the idea of quick money. Our cultural heros
have generally been plodders, as in the fable about the
race between a tortoise and a hare. "In the fable, the
hare loses. The stories in this book are not fables. They
are true.