The Greatest Trade Ever

The definitive account of a sensational trade Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short

Autumn 2008. The worlds finances collapse but one man makes a killing.

John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 Billion for his fund and more than $4 Billion for himself in a single year. Its a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity.

John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it.

Extraordinary, excellentObserver

A must-read for anyone fascinated by financial madnessMail on Sunday

A forensic, read-in-one-sitting bookSunday Times

Simply terrific. Easily the best of the post-crash financial books Malcolm Gladwell

A great page-turner and a great illuminator of the markets crash John Helyar, author of Barbarians at the Gate