The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U. S. History

Journalist Tyler Gray's The Hit Charade is the true story of boy band manager Lou Pearlman's epic rise and fall.

Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music and began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a huckster who firs...