Junk: A Play Audiobook (Free)

*Now on Broadway at Lincoln Center starring Steven Pasquale*

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal producing behind the mergers and acquisitions increase of the 1980s.

Occur 1985, Rubbish tells the story of Robert Merkin, citizen genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker Lowell. Hailed as ‘America’s Alchemist,’ his proclamation that ‘personal debt is an asset’ provides propelled him to a dizzying level of success. By orchestrating the takeover of an enormous steel producer, Merkin intends to accomplish the ‘deal of the 10 years,’ the one that will rewrite all of the rules. Working on his broadest canvas to day, Pulitzer Prize champion Ayad Akhtar chronicles the lives of women and men engaged in financial civil battle: insatiable traders, threatened employees, killer lawyers, skeptical journalists, and ambitious federal government prosecutors. Although it’s arranged 40 years in the past, that is a play about the world we reside in today; a world where money became the thing of real value.