The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis 's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys , a game-changing expos¿f 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.