INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERExtraordinary The ObserverA stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New YorkerLewiss storytelling is as good as ever The EconomistFrom the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the highoctane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st centurys most spectacular financial collapsesI asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally saidthough he added that he had use for infinity dollars...Sam BankmanFried wasnt just rich. Before he turned thirty hed become the worlds youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time. At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there.Then it all fell apart.Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his milliondollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire collapse so spectacularlyMichael Lewis was there when it happened having got to know BankmanFried during his epic rise. In Going Infinite he tells us a story like no other taking us through the mindbending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own. Both psychological portrait of a preternaturally gifted thinking machine and wild financial rollercoaster ride this is a twentyfirstcentury epic of highfrequency trading and even higher stakes of crypto mania and insane amounts of money of hubris and downfall. No one could tell it better.