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Charlie is recruited to use his mathematical prowess to discover what happened to a box of stolen moon rocks in this follow up to Bringing Down the Mouse.The Kid: Charlie Lewis, a.k.a. Numbers. The smartest kids in sixth grade. Charlie sees the world as a series of math problems—ones that can be solved, if you know the right equations. The Team: The Whiz Kids. Charlie's best friends are joining him undercover to recover missing moon rocks, whi...

The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park­-like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth. "Paced like a thriller…Woolly reanimates history and breathes new life into the narrative of nature" (NPR).With his "unparalleled" (Booklist, starred review) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating and true adventure story from the icy terrain o...

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An extraordinary true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal activity along the UFO Highway - a 3, 000 mile stretch through the heart of America.

Bestselling author Ben Mezrich explores science's latest gambit - the resurrection of an extinct creature from pre-history...

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Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an ideaa romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASApast security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined hallwaysand help him steal the most precious objects in the world: t...

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The larger-than-life true tale of how a few frat brothers from Montana turned a weekly poker game in a dive bar into one of the most lucrative online companies in historyased on extensive insider interviews, Ben Mezrich—bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—chronicles the creation of AbsolutePoker.com, including the company's initial operations in the jungle paradise of Costa Rica where its founders live...

Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world.

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From the author of "Bringing Down the House" and "Ugly Americans" comes "a riveting story about kids with excess brainpower taking on casinos with excess money... A gripping true-life adventure that will keep you reading well past your bedtime."--"The Boston Globe.

John Malcolm, a hungry young Princeton grad, traveled halfway across the world in search of the American dream and ultimately pulled off a trade that could, quite simply, be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. Surrounded by characters ripped out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world-at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever seen. Malcolm and his twenty-...

Charlie Lewis goes on a roller coaster ride of risk, math, and gaming in this middle grade novel that parallels the New York Times bestselling Bringing Down the House, which inspired the movie 21.Charlie Lewis is a nerd. All he's ever been good at is math—and he's really good at math. So good that he's recruited by a group of kids determined to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world—and win the grand prize. Soon Charlie is caug...

A real-life mix of The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mezrich "writes vividly and grippingly…A terrific story…[that] will make a heck of a movie" (The Washington Post). Here is the "fascinating" (Publishers Weekly) true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events in remote areas of the western United States and is drawn deeper and deeper into a mysterious conspiracy.Like Agent Mulder of The X-Files, microchip e...

A shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs, from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Accidental Billionaires" and "Bringing Down The House". Now in paperback.