*Now on Broadway at Lincoln Center starring Steven Pasquale*

Through the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal producing behind the mergers and acquisitions boom from the 1980s.

Set in 1985, Junk tells the storyplot of Robert Merkin, citizen genius from the upstart expenditure firm Sacker Lowell. Hailed simply because ‘America’s Alchemist,’ his proclamation that ‘personal debt can be an asset’ has propelled him to a dizzying degree of achievement. By orchestrating the takeover of a massive steel manufacturer, Merkin intends to accomplish the ‘deal of the 10 years,’ one that will rewrite all the rules. Focusing on his broadest canvas to date, Pulitzer Prize champion Ayad Akhtar chronicles the lives of women and men engaged in monetary civil war: insatiable traders, threatened employees, killer attorneys, skeptical journalists, and ambitious federal prosecutors. Although it’s established 40 years before, this is a play about the world we reside in now; a world where money became the thing of real worth.