The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Hardcover

There aren't many reasons to be happy about the global financial crisis, but here's one: that it brought Michael Lewis back to his roots, to produce what is probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written (Felix Salmon Reuters)

Each chapter is full of the kind of dialogue you do not hear even in the best-written Hollywood films ... Lewis is back (John Arlidge Sunday Times)

No one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Mr. Lewis (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

Hugely entertaining (Economist)

If you read only one book about the causes of the recent financial crisis, let it be Michael Lewis's, The Big Short (Steven Pearlstein Washington Post)

The Big Short is superb: Michael Lewis doing what he does best, illuminating the idiocy, madness and greed of modern finance ... But what truly sets Michael Lewis apart from other writers is his craft ... the end result is devastating (Salon)

Eagerly anticipated ... A triumph ... Lewis builds the tension of this tug-of-war expertly, so much so that The Big Short reads like a thriller (Antonia Senior Times)

Lewis creates magnificent financial set-pieces (James Buchan Guardian)

Lewis is hugely entertaining ... a terrifying story, superbly well told (David Flusfeder Daily Telegraph)

"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as a cautionary tale, but people seem to have read it as a how-to guide. Now, he wants to settle accounts. In this visceral tour to the heart of the financial system, Michael Lewis takes us around the globe and back decades to trace the origins of the current crisis. He meets the people who saw it coming, the people who were asleep at the wheel and the people who were actively driving us all of cliff. How could we have all been so deluded for quite so long? Where did it all start? Was it systemic? Was it avoidable? And who the hell can we blame? Michael Lewis has the answers. No one is better qualified to get to the heart of this labyrinthine story. And no one can make it such an enjoyable ride along the way.