The Wolf of Wall Street meets The Godfather. Gripping, salacious, and irresistible.

Wall Street, 2000. A naive twenty-year-old from Nebraska, Laura Ellyson doesn’t belong in New York's male-dominated Financial District. Against all odds, her wit, beauty, and determination lead her to a promising career at Aqua Capital, Lower Manhattan's hottest new hedge fund.

Suddenly, Laura finds herself living in a triumphant fairy tale—including a newfound romance that eclipses her deepest desires. But hidden behind Aqua Capital's stratospheric profits and megalomaniac manager lies a shady, treacherous secret: the Mafia. Now, after witnessing unspeakable horror, she must confront an unforeseen, tempestuous destiny as she is forced to fight for her own life.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

Character-driven, unfolding at breakneck speed, this novel compels the reader to read on until the very last line in a satisfying conclusion.

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami.

From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.

“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.

Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing never-disclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle.

This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.