The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."―Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.

Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time.

• Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
• Where We Stand: Class Matters
• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
• Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
• Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves