Flash Boys

A beautiful narrative, so well-written. You’ve got to get this – Jon Stewart * The Daily Show *Dazzling… guaranteed to make blood boil… riveting – Janet Maslin * The New York Times *Enthralling – John Naughton * Observer *Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story * Vanity Fair *This book has the potential to spark a cultural uprising … More than five years on from the Lehman collapse, Lewis has lit the touch paper on the mother of all debates about Wall Street and global finance – Liam Halligan * Spectator *Compelling, a great yarn from beginning to end – Daniel Finkelstein * The Times *When the stories of our times are told, there will be no more seminal documents than the books of Michael Lewis * Guardian *Who knew high-frequency trading was such a sexy subject? * Bloomberg Business Week *Michael Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age * Huffington Post *Michael Lewis is a genius, and his book will give high-frequency trading a much-needed turn under the microscope – Kevin Roose * New York Magazine *

Michael Lewis’s global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing expose of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Moneyball, the story of a maverick outsider who beat the system; and Liar’s Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.