Flash Boys (Lewis)

Book Reviews
[D]azzling… Because Mr. Lewis is at the helm finding clear, simple metaphors for even the most impenetrable financial minutiae, this tawdry tale should make sense to anyone. And so should its shock value. Flash Boys is guaranteed to make blood boil.
Janet Maslin - New York Times


When it comes to narrative skill, a reporter’s curiosity, and an uncanny instinct for the pulse of the zeitgeist, Lewis is a triple threat as he’s demonstrated in best-­selling books like The Big Short and Moneyball. But those formidable talents are only intermittently on display in this ultimately unsatisfying probe of high-­frequency traders, who may (or may not) be ripping off investors and destabilizing the global financial system.... Lewis might have pondered how frustrating it is for readers...to be told a story in which the villains aren’t named.
James B. Stewart - New York Times Book Review


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 - Wall Street Journal


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

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


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


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


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


In 24 hours, I plowed through Michael Lewis' new blockbuster Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, a book about the huge changes that have occurred in financial markets in the last three decades. It's compelling reading.
John Aziz - The Week


Flash Boys richly deserves to be the first chapter in a new discussion of market rules and abuses… Lewis raises troubling and necessary questions.
American Conservative


In his latest captivating expedition into the marketplace jungle, Lewis (Moneyball) explores how the rise of computerized stock exchanges and their attendant scams started a battle for the soul of Wall Street.... The result is an engrossing true-life morality play that unmasks the devil in the details of high finance.
Publishers Weekly


Kirkus Reviews
In trademark Lewis fashion, a data-rich but all-too-human tale of “heuristic data bullshit and other mumbo jumbo” in the service of gaming the financial system, courtesy of—yes, Goldman Sachs and company.... A riveting, maddening yarn that is causing quite a stir already, including calls for regulatory reform.