Octopus: An exhaustive—and exhausting—chronicle of Sam Israel’s Bayou delusions

Like investors in Bayou, readers of Guy Lawson’s new book won’t know what to believe.


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by Guy Lawson
Crown Publishers
$26.00



You can’t blame the material.

The story of Sam Israel, the Bayou Group founder and subject of Guy Lawson’s new Octopus, is almost too outlandish to be true.

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