The Big Short Inside the Doomsday Machine by Lewis Michael

From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas The Big Short this title tells the story of the misfits renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst bet against the banking system - and made a killing.|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; 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.|It's time to throw another tank of petrol on the Wall Street pyre as only Lewis can|He is so good everyone else may as well pack up|No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis|Probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written|Hugely entertaining|Terrifying and superbly told|Genius|Compelling and horrifying|A 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|A triumph ... riveting ... a genuine page-turner|The very best book about this whole affair|If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis let it be Michael Lewis's The Big Short|In the hands of Michael Lewis anything is possible ... if you want to know how a nation lost its financial mind - and have a good laugh finding out - this is the book to read.|Magnificent ... a perfect storm of brilliant writer meeting big subject.|THE OUTRAGEOUS NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW AN OSCAR- AND BAFTA-WINNING FILM From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas The Big Short Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller tells the story of the misfits renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst bet against the banking system - and made a killing. 'In the hands of Michael Lewis anything is possible ... if you want to know how a nation lost its financial mind - and have a good laugh finding out - this is the book to read' Sunday Times 'Magnificent ... a perfect storm of brilliant writer meeting big subject' Guardian 'A triumph ... riveting ... The Big Short reads like a thriller' The Times'A terrifying story superbly well told' Daily Telegraph'A rollicking good yarn' Financial Times 'Probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written' Reuters