Phillip L. Zweig

“Mr. Zweig has put together an extraordinary piece of research that is a business book only in the loosest sense; what he has really written is a cultural history of the oil and gas boom…and it contains some of the most colorful subject matter you are ever likely to read.”

“What a story!...Belly Up is a book to be assigned in business schools, to be read by bank directors and examiners, and by anyone interested in what can happen when hustlers attain positions of trust.”
“Belly Up... is crammed with detail that is often hilarious, and shaped with a high order of narrative skill.”
“DALLAS translated into real life!”
“For anybody who thinks that all bankers are straitlaced individuals in conservative, blue pin-stripe suits, this book will be an eye opener.”
“Belly Up merits a slot on any investor’s literary shelf as surely as it does a Pulitzer Prize!”
“Investigative reporting at its best.”
“Phil Zweig is a top-flight investigative reporter.”
“For the full story, Belly Up is the book to read.”
“Zweig’s account of the last desperate moves to keep the bank afloat are engrossing.”