SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010

They have been described as the masters of the financial world, flying in private jets and earning billions. They believed they were too big to fail. However, they would bring the world to its knees.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, a journalist for the New York Times, offers the first true insider account of the most powerful men and women at the eye of the financial storm - from the reviled CEO of Lehman Brothers, Dick 'the gorilla' Fuld, to banking titan Jamie Dimon, from bullish Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Joseph Cassano of AIG, known as 'The Man Who Crashed the World.'

Through unprecedented access to the key players, Sorkin accurately recreates the frantic phone calls, f-bombs and panic, as Wall Street tried to save itself.

Pages: 640, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm