Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran,&nbspFidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and&nbspapartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the&nbspIsraeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for taxfraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts&nbspby U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally.This sure-to-make-headlines book is the first no-holds-barred biography of Rich, who was famously&nbsppardoned by Bill Clinton, and resurfaced in the news during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Eric Holder.nbsp; <i>The King of Oil</i> &nbspsheds stunning new light on&nbspone of the most controversial international businessmen of all time, charting Rich's rise from the Holocaust, which he fled as a young boy, to become the wealthiest and most powerful oil and commodities trader of the century. From his earliest trading days&nbspto the&nbsppresent,&nbspMarc Rich's story is astonishing and compelling.