Here are people who have somehow preserved a moral sense in an environment where you don’t get paid for that they have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it. But in the end, Flash Boys is an uplifting story. Thrilling, a masterclass Robert McCrum, Observer.

Its hilarious, terrifying and its all true. Michael Lewiss epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. The light that Lewis shines into the darkest corners of the financial world may not be good for your blood pressure, because if you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. Be very afraid John Arlidge, Sunday Times. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world’s stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits. The characters in Flash Boys are fabulous, each completely different from what you think of when you think “Wall Street guy.” Several have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading-source of the most intractable problems-will have no advantage whatsoever. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately but after they discover each other, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. From the #1 bestselling author of The Blind Side and Moneyballįour years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.įlash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post-financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks.

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis