(Norton, $28)
Wall Street has always attracted thieves, and a new class of bandits has just been flushed out of the shadows, said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. In his “dazzling, troublemaking” new book, the best-selling writer Michael Lewis describes how high-frequency traders are using lightning-fast computer servers to jump between sellers and buyers on millions of electronic trades each day, adding a toll on trading that raises costs for everyone else. The author of Moneyball and The Big Short has a talent for finding “clear, simple metaphors for even the most impenetrable financial minutiae,” so any reader will be shocked by the discoveries he’s made about how the market is rigged against ordinary investors. Flash Boys is “guaranteed to make blood boil.”
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