Famed Nelson Bunker Hunt, along with Saudi sheikhs, manipulated silver prices in 1979-80 while meeting at thoroughbred horse events, five-star hotels and posh restaurants. When prices spiked from $9 to $51, they pocketed billions while thousands were cheated, including Minpeco, Peru's minerals agent. Regulators conflicted by their dealings with Bunker failed to stop his broad daylight conspiracy. When prices crashed two months later, the Hunt defaults threatened the US economy with collapse. Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Chairman, engineered the first controversial too-big-to-fail bailout to save the US economy. Squeezing Silver is a legal thriller that takes the reader inside the courtroom of one of the most important trials of recent decades recreating real-life confrontations with key witnesses, premier defense lawyers, and a respected judge. A fascinating view inside what was perhaps our first modern financial meltdown. Mark Cymrot's meticulous account reads like a legal thriller complete with larger than life characters, secret liaisons, and all the machinations we have come to expect from powerful defendants. In the end, there was justice, of a particular yet meaningful American sort. Could this still happen today? Simon H. Johnson, Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund (2007-08), Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. --Dust Jacket Whenever I look back to the start of my career, I realize how fortunate I was to work under the leadership of Mark Cymrot in the landmark lawsuit against Nelson Bunker Hunt for manipulating silver prices. In Squeezing Silver Mark shows you why. R. Pierluisi, Member of Congress (PR, 2009-16) and Attorney General of Puerto Rico (1993-96) --Dust Jacket In Squeezing Silver, Mark Cymrot depicts his intense confrontation as a young lawyer with three legal titans in the midst of a historic trial. Having known these four fine lawyers, I know Mark's descriptions are realistic and perceptive. The story is exciting, and Mark's honest insights about a remarkable courtroom battle are uniquely revealing. Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (1998-2001) and founding partner of Giuliani Partners LLC. --Dust Jacket Mark A. Cymrot is the Leader of Baker Hostetler LLP's international arbitration and litigation practice. He is the author of more than 30 publications and frequent speaker on topics drawn from his illustrious career, which includes the defense of Peru in $10 billion commercial debt lawsuits worldwide and in a reward case arising from the capture of Vladimiro Montesinos, the infamous Peruvian security head; he won a jury verdict against the Brunei Investment Agency, and represented Puerto Rico's largest newspaper, El Nuevo Dia, in a civil rights lawsuit against the Governor. He serves on the board of the Writer's Center (writer.org) and CPR President's Advisory Council, and is an advisor to ALI's Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law. He was special litigation counsel in the Civil Division of the Justice Department.