金石堂★ 美國亞馬遜網路書店、《紐約時報》暢銷榜冠軍
麥克路易士是位著作主題豐富的大師級作家，他的作品有談體育並躍上大銀幕的《The Blind Side》(中譯書名：攻其不備)、《Money Ball》(中譯書名：魔球)。也有為華爾街視為必讀經典的《Liars' Poker》(中譯書名：老千騙局)，其中八本皆登上《紐約時報》、亞馬遜網路書店的暢銷書榜。
2010年路易士終於出新書了！他的新作《The Big Short》(中文暫譯：大賣空)，雖然探討近年來世人熟知的金融崩盤議題，記載的卻是其他著作不曾討論、從這場金融瓦礫中全身而退的有識之士。
書中四段傳奇的真人真事，描述德意志銀行交易員Greg Lippman、FrontPoint投資公司的Steve Eisner、Cornwall Capital的合夥人，以及加州避險基金公司Scion Capital 的 Michael Burry的事蹟。他們在金融環境看似美好、眾人瘋狂購買重新包裝的次貸衍生商品時，反其道而行，懷疑起房價、擔保債權憑證 (CDOs)之價值，著手一場世紀大賣空。 雖然外界對賣空者總是抱持負面觀感，在路易士眼裡，這四位賣空者在當時貪婪自大的金融生態中，才是有膽識的豪傑。
在路易士的筆下，本書內容雖然牽涉複雜的證券交易，卻如小說情節般的生動，讀來毫不艱澀！ 例如其中一段描寫Michael Burry的故事精采極了。Burry原是史丹福大學醫院住院醫師，他在網站上發表選股建議而大受歡迎，因而成立一支避險基金。其後Burry花很多精力研讀股票分析、財報等相關資訊，加以投資的好眼光，他找到了很多被低估的股票，只做多，不做空，讓他的基金從2001年起逐年上漲。2004年Burry意識到房地產市場的問題，開始暗自進行他的房市大賣空，但在2007年次貸風暴發生前，他受到投資人與投資銀行強烈質疑，讓他嘗盡苦頭…直到2007年Burry預測的次貸風暴終於爆發，Burry賺進超過一億美金！
路易士說故事的功力在《The Big Short》發揮得淋漓盡致。他透過全新視野、幽默及充滿智慧的文字，描寫洞見金融危機、但受當時業界鄙夷的非凡人物，也為這個時代新添了一筆經典作品！(文/銀背鋼絲絨)
Featuring an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael Lewis
When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.
The crucial question is this: Who understood the risk inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on piles of doubtful mortgages?
Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestselling Liar's Poker. Who got it right? he asks. Who saw the ever-rising real estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.
Michael Lewis, "is the finest storyteller of our generation."-Malcolm Gladwell
作者簡介
Michael Lewis, the author of Liar's Poker, The Money Culture, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.
