With an incredible feat of electronic fraud, young investment adviser Mitch Myerson bankrupts four of his Ivy League-educated friends and - to add insult to injury - runs off with one of their wives. When the FBI comes up empty-handed, the four men pack up their laptop computers and cellular phones, jump into their BMWs, and head off for Manhattan on the chance that the couple is still in the States. Yuppie Scum is filled with engaging characters: Brian McPhillips, the thirtysomething bankruptcy attorney whose dreams of a house in the 'burbs go up in smoke after Myerson's scam ... Jeff Wheaton, the wildly successful mail-order computer entrepreneur whose tempestuous marital problems with the beautiful Rachel come to light after she runs off with the bad guy ... Bruce Mazzola, the brash athletic junk-bond maven who made his first million by age twenty-five ... Chuck Beekman, the heir apparent to his family's super-lucrative auto dealership, at least until his father discovers that his trust fund is wiped out ... and Raoul St. Germaine, the shadowy British financier behind it all, who just might have been a key figure in the Iran-Contra affair. Once in the city, their frenzied search seems fruitless until Wheaton taps into a data bank and pinpoints the couple's location. Hot in pursuit, the foursome race to catch them, only to uncover a startling twist to the entire, sordid affair that results in an explosively violent confrontation.