House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism

The international bestseller from the winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, House of Cards dissects the collapse of Bear Stearns and the beginning of the financial crisis

It was Wall Street's toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying 'let's make nothing but money' over the trading floor.

Yet in March 2008 the 85-year-old firm Bear Stearns was brought to its knees - and global economic meltdown began. With unprecedented access to the people at the eye of the financial storm, William Cohan tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street's entire house of cards came crashing down.

'A fly-on-the-wall record ... Cohan is a master of this genre. He perfectly captures the raw voice of Wall Street ... like Damon Runyon updated by Martin Scorsese' Martin Vander Weyer, Spectator Business

'Action-packed ... gripping' David Smith, Sunday Times

'A page-turner ... hard to put down, especially thanks to its dishy, often profane, quotes from insiders ... Read it, learn - and weep' Roben Farzad, Business Week