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A beautiful narrative, so well-written. You've got to get this

Dazzling... guaranteed to make blood boil... riveting

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

Compelling, a great yarn from beginning to end

When the stories of our times are told, there will be no more seminal documents than the books of Michael Lewis

Who knew high-frequency trading was such a sexy subject?

Michael Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age

Michael Lewis is a genius, and his book will give high-frequency trading a much-needed turn under the microscope

Flash Boys is remarkable for its moral outrage as it reveals how high-frequency traders have hoodwinked both investors and the public . . . He is that rare beast: an insider who writes lucid, jargon-free prose and who never loses track of his ultimate responsibility to the story

Remarkable . . . Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects

He tracks down the men who worked out what was going wrong and exposed it

Score one for the humans! Critics of high speed, computer-driven trading have a new champion

If you own stock, you need to read Flash Boys . . . and then call your broker

Important to public debate about Wall Street . . . in exposing what one of his central characters calls the 'Pandora's box of ridiculousness' that financial exchanges have become

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

Probably the best current writer in America

'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

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.

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.

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