It's Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John Paulson a
softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work seemed unlikely to stake his
career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he
realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst making $15 billion for his fund
and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry
individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity. John Paulson made the biggest winning bet
in history. And this is how he did it.
