Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis * The Atlantic Monthly * Andrew Ross Sorkin has written a fascinating, scene-by-scene saga of the eyeless trying to march the clueless through Great Depression II * Tom Wolfe * Sorkin has succeeded in writing the book of the crisis, with amazing levels of detail and access * Reuters * Sorkin can write. His storytelling makes Liar's Poker look like a children's book * SNL Financial * Too good to put down . . . It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly . . . It is hard to imagine them being this riveting * Economist * As close to a definitive account as we are likely to get * Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times * The most readable and exciting report of the events surrounding the Lehman collapse that we have seen . . . impeccably sourced * Edmund Conway, Daily Telegraph * Surpassed its rivals with its depth, range of reporting and high quality analysis * Stefan Stern, FT * He has done a remarkable job in producing a lively account that will be hard for subsequent authors to beat * Gillian Tett, FT * The sense of being in the meeting rooms as hitherto all-conquering alpha male egos fight for their reputations, as their and our world judders, is palpable * Chris Blackhurst, Evening Standard * A superbly researched and sobering take on the events surrounding the meltdown on Wall Street * Sam Mendes * Compelling, novelistic and enormously thorough account * Alison Roberts, Evening Standard * A fine narrative drawn from interviews with the leading bankers and policymakers * Oliver Kamm, The Times * A riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and what comes afterwards * Books of the Year recommendation, Economist *
