Flash Boys

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

If you own stock, you need to read Flash Boys . . . and then call your broker

Entertainment Weekly

Important to public debate about Wall Street . . . in exposing what one of his central characters calls the 'Pandora's box of ridiculousness' that financial exchanges have become

Philip Delves Broughton, The Wall Street Journal

I read Michael Lewis for the same reasons I watch Tiger Woods. I'll never play like that. But it's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like

Malcolm Gladwell

Probably the best current writer in America

Tom Wolfe