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A beautiful narrative, so well-written. You’ve got to get this — Jon Stewart ― The Daily Show

Dazzling… guaranteed to make blood boil… riveting — Janet Maslin ― The New York Times

Enthralling — John Naughton ― Observer

Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story ― Vanity Fair

This book has the potential to spark a cultural uprising . . . More than five years on from the Lehman collapse, Lewis has lit the touch paper on the mother of all debates about Wall Street and global finance — Liam Halligan ― Spectator

Compelling, a great yarn from beginning to end — Daniel Finkelstein ― The Times

When the stories of our times are told, there will be no more seminal documents than the books of Michael Lewis ― Guardian

Who knew high-frequency trading was such a sexy subject? ― Bloomberg Business Week

Michael Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age ― Huffington Post

Michael Lewis is a genius, and his book will give high-frequency trading a much-needed turn under the microscope — Kevin Roose ― New York Magazine

Flash Boys is remarkable for its moral outrage as it reveals how high-frequency traders have hoodwinked both investors and the public . . . He is that rare beast: an insider who writes lucid, jargon-free prose and who never loses track of his ultimate responsibility to the story ― Daily Telegraph

Remarkable . . . Michael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects ― Financial Times

He tracks down the men who worked out what was going wrong and exposed it — John Arlidge ― Sunday Times

Score one for the humans! Critics of high speed, computer-driven trading have a new champion ― CNN Money