*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.
