Ignore the book's meaningless title. This is a book on activist hedge funds that take large positions in publicly traded stocks and agitate for change. It is not a bad book for learning how activist funds operate and the regulatory landscape they occupy. But the book is very one-dimensional, mostly ignoring other topics, such as fees, expenses, fund legal structures, instances of fraud, risk-adjusted performance, etc. The book drags considerably with numerous pointless anecdotes: this hedge fund did this; that one did that; these ones did these things. It is worth a browse ...