- Published: 25 March 2015
- ISBN: 9780141981031
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $30.00
Flash Boys











- Published: 25 March 2015
- ISBN: 9780141981031
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $30.00
Probably the best current writer in America
Tom Wolfe
I read Michael Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like
Malcolm Gladwell
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, The Wall Street Journal
If you own stock, you need to read Flash Boys . . . and then call your broker
Entertainment Weekly
Score one for the humans! Critics of high speed, computer-driven trading have a new champion
CNN Money
He tracks down the men who worked out what was going wrong and exposed it
John Arlidge, Sunday Times
Remarkable . . . Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects
Financial Times
Flash Boys is remarkable for its moral outrage as it reveals how high-frequency traders have hoodwinked both investors and the public . . . He is that rare beast: an insider who writes lucid, jargon-free prose and who never loses track of his ultimate responsibility to the story
Daily Telegraph
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 is one of the premier chroniclers of our age
Huffington Post
Who knew high-frequency trading was such a sexy subject?
Bloomberg Business Week
When the stories of our times are told, there will be no more seminal documents than the books of Michael Lewis
Guardian
Compelling, a great yarn from beginning to end
Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
This book has the potential to spark a cultural uprising . . . More than five years on from the Lehman collapse, Lewis has lit the touch paper on the mother of all debates about Wall Street and global finance
Liam Halligan, Spectator
Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story
Vanity Fair
Enthralling
John Naughton, Observer
Dazzling... guaranteed to make blood boil... riveting
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
A beautiful narrative, so well-written. You've got to get this
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show