GOING INFINITE

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extraordinary The Observer A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New Yorker Lewis s storytelling is as good as ever The EconomistFrom the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the high octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century s most spectacular financial collapses I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money He thought the question over One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally said though he added that he had use for infinity dollars Sam Bankman Fried wasn t just rich Before he turned thirty he d become the world s youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there Then it all fell apart Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his million dollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire collapse so spec