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