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The Big Short

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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

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.

Inside the Doomsday Machine

'We fed the monster until it blew up ...' 
 
While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. 
 
From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.

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

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.

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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

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