Lucky Loser

A first-rate financial thriller ... one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read ... A multi-generational saga

New York Times

Meticulously documented ... Buettner and Craig have such a trove of documents, they are able to prove, in incontrovertible detail, the reality under the hype that is Donald Trump ... This is a page turner, with spectacular anecdotes

Washington Post

Shows that the popular caricature of Trump as a canny real estate titan - one painstakingly crafted by him, and by television producers - is more fact than fiction. ... With scalpel-like precision, [Buettner and Craig] paint a detailed portrait of just how much Trump was given to set him up for success in business, and the hundreds of millions of his father's money he squandered on bad deals ... Damning

Sunday Times

A page-turner ... Buettner and Craig delve more deeply into this story than anyone I've encountered

Guardian

Groundbreaking reporting ... comprehensive, persuasive, and packed with damning anecdotes

The New Yorker

Strikes at the heart of the Trump myth

Financial Times

I can’t emphasise this enough: Lucky Loser is a gripping, page-turning read, devastating in its meticulousness and thrilling in its narrative. If the devil is in the detail, this book is as close to Satan’s origin story as we’re ever going to get

Emma Brockes, Guardian

Buettner and Craig are relentless in picking apart every Trump misstatement … the pattern becomes clear … Lucky Loser shows us that Trump’s self-invention was largely based on lies

Literary Review

An expansive account of the New York Times reporters’ award-winning investigation into Trump’s finances

Financial Times, *Books of the Year*