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GOING INFINITE - MICHAEL LEWIS GEBUNDEN

*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Extraordinary' The Observer
'A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read' New Yorker 'Lewis's storytelling is as good as ever'
The Economist From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys  the high-octane
story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular
financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something
other than make money. He thought the question over. One hundred and fifty billion dollars  he
finally said-though he added that he had use for infinity dollars...' Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't
just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire  making a
record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs  celebrities and world leaders vied for his time. At
one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his
business there. Then it all fell apart. Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world  a rumpled guy
in cargo shorts  whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side
who even his million-dollar investors still found a mystery? What gave him such an
extraordinary ability to make money - and how did his empire collapse so spectacularly? Michael
Lewis was there when it happened  having got to know Bankman-Fried during his epic rise. In
Going Infinite he tells us a story like no other  taking us through the mind-bending trajectory
of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own. Both psychological
portrait of a preternaturally gifted 'thinking machine'  and wild financial roller-coaster ride
this is a twenty-first-century epic of high-frequency trading and even higher stakes  of crypto
mania and insane amounts of money  of hubris and downfall. No one could tell it better.

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