Flash Boys
Author(s): Michael Lewis (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Publication Date: 23 Mar. 2015
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0141981032
- ISBN-13: 9780141981031
Book Description
'The greatest story of our age ... Be very afraid' John Arlidge, Sunday Times
Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious, terrifying and it's all true.
'Thrilling, a masterclass' Robert McCrum, Observer, Books of the Year
'Jaw-dropping, astonishing ... Lewis has lit the touch paper' Liam Halligan, Spectator
'The kind of writer who creates his own weather system' John Lanchester, London Review of Books
'I read Michael Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like' Malcolm Gladwell
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
From the Back Cover
Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your cash don't know what's happening to it. And the very few who do aren't about to tell - because they're making a killing. This is a market that's rigged, out of control and out of sight; a market in which the chief need is for speed; and in which traders would sell their grandmothers for a microsecond. Blink, and you'll miss it. In Flash Boys, Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on. It's the story of what it's like to declare war on some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. It's about taking on an entire system. And it's about the madness that has taken hold of the financial markets today.You won't believe it until you've read it.
About the Author
Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
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