In 1988, Forbes Magazine declared Chuck Feeney the 23rd richest living American. But Forbes was wrong. And they would repeat this mistake yearly because they didn't know that Chuck Feeney had freed himself from his wealth. He had become a billionaire without billions. And that stayed a secret for a long time.

Born in the USA to a working-class family during the Great Depression, Feeney accumulated his wealth as co-founder of a global duty-free trading chain, which was the largest in the world. Later he created a foundation based on anonymous philanthropy. Thus his influence became even greater. For the billionaire quietly invested his entire fortune everywhere around the world. This is a story of immense yet untold success in small business, a story of the remarkable work of one hidden from cameras philanthropist during the twentieth century.