The Big Short

It’s time to throw another tank of petrol on the Wall Street pyre, as only Lewis can * Financial Times *He is so good everyone else may as well pack up * Evening Standard *No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis – Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *Probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written * Reuters *Hugely entertaining * Economist *Terrifying and superbly told * Daily Telegraph *Genius * Sunday Times *Compelling and horrifying – GQA more than worthy successor to Liar’s Poker … if you want to know about the origins of the credit crunch, and the extraordinary cast of misfits, visionaries and chancers who made money from the crash, there’s no more readable account * Daily Telegraph *A triumph … riveting … a genuine page-turner * Times *

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.