NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential exposé of our times-a work that reveals the deep rot
in our financial system . . . Everyone should read this book.-David Grann author of Killers of
the Flower Moon ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR-The New York Times and The Economist •
Finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in
Journalism The hedge fund industry changed Wall Street. Its pioneers didn't lay railroads
build factories or invent new technologies. Rather they made their billions through financial
speculation by placing bets in the market that turned out to be right more often than not. In
hedge fund circles Steven A. Cohen was revered as one of the greatest traders who ever lived.
But that image was shattered when his fund SAC Capital became the target of a seven-year
government investigation. Prosecutors labeled SAC a magnet for market cheaters whose culture
encouraged the relentless pursuit of edge-and even black edge which is inside information-and
the firm was ultimately indicted and pleaded guilty to charges related to a vast insider
trading scheme. Cohen himself however was never charged. Black Edge is a riveting legal
thriller that raises urgent questions about the power and wealth of those who sit at the
pinnacle of high finance and how they have reshaped the economy. Longlisted for the Andrew
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book
of the Year Award A modern version of Moby-Dick with wiretaps rather than harpoons.-Jennifer
Senior The New York Times If you liked James B. Stewart's Den of Thieves Sheelah Kolhatkar's
thrilling Black Edge should be next on your reading list.-The Wall Street Journal
Excellent.-The Economist A true-life thriller with Shakespearian stakes . . . Her chilling
account of a blighted industry is as mesmerizing as a human story as it is as a financial
one.-Fortune A tour de force of groundbreaking reporting and brilliant storytelling.-Jeffrey
Toobin New York Times bestselling author of American Heiress
