Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

#1 New York Times Bestseller ? With a new Afterword"Guaranteed to make blood boil." ?Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together?some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries?to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.Review?Lewis, as always, is exceedingly good at describing the complexities and absurdities of the subculture he portrays here? A deeply entertaining book, and one that illuminates how much our world has changed in less than a decade.? -Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times?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.? -Philip Delves Broughton, Wall Street Journal?Reads like a thriller . . . Lewis is the kind of writer who creates his own weather system.? -John Lanchester, London Review of Books?Remarkable? Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects.? -Financial Times?Michael Lewis does it again . . . fascinating.? -Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post?A beautiful narrative, so well-written. You?ve got to get this.? -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show?If you read one business book this year, make itFlash Boys.? -David Sirota, Salon?Michael Lewis is a genius, and his book will give high-frequency trading a much-needed turn under the microscope.? -Kevin Roose, New York Magazine?Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story.? -Vanity Fair?A fast-paced tale backed by gutsy reporting.? -Tina Jordan, Entertainment WeeklyAbout the AuthorMichael Lewis is the best-selling author ofLiar?s Poker,Moneyball,The Blind Side,The Big Short, andThe Undoing Project. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.