The bestselling, no-holds-barred expose of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times.
Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing expose of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Moneyball, the story of a maverick outsider who beat the system; and Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
Stranger and more terrifying than fiction ... The characters are
riveting, and the drama intense. It's a story so jaw-dropping that
at times it's hard to believe it was not invented for film ... It
paints a picture of America being not just pulled apart at the
political seams, but in the very fabric of the government
itself.
*Daily Telegraph*
A page turner ... Lewis's most ambitious and important book.
*The New York Times Book Review*
Who will fight for the censuses of this world? Who will defend the
research grants, food-voucher programmes and risk management
projects that quietly sustain a healthy nation? Step forward
Michael Lewis. ... The result is a civics lesson worth taking ...
Stunning. His message is powerful ... reminds us why good
institutions matter, why skilled public servants are critical and
what our government is actually for.
*Sunday Times*
Jaw-dropping ... genuinely stopped me in my tracks.
*i newspaper*
Michael Lewis has a gift for identifying seemingly inaccessible
subjects and spinning them into epic stories with Hollywood
appeal.
*New Statesman*
Lewis's remarkable books tend to tell the stories of underdogs,
heroically independent-minded people who zag when the world
zigs.
*Evening Standard*
Risk has been the central theme of Lewis's highly successful
career. ... The fifth risk is something impossible to conceive of
in advance, or to prepare for directly. What matters is having a
well-organised government in place to respond to these
contingencies when they hit - exactly what the Trump
administration has failed to do.
*Guardian*
Given that we now seem to be inhabiting a somewhat medieval world
of plague and portent, I'd like to make the case for the prophetic
powers of the US journalist Michael Lewis ... In December the
notion [of the fifth risk] seemed wildly far-fetched. Four months
on, it seems we will get the chance to find out if he was on the
money.
*Observer*
The best part of The Fifth Risk is the evidence Lewis can add to
the pile ... Lewis is a master of boiling down complexity into
individual stories told by interesting characters.
*The Times*
Michael Lewis has a knack for making the complex appear simple.
Here he uses the inner workings of the US Department of Energy to
demonstrate how Trump is dismantling government.
*i magazine*
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