" This book should have been titled "The man who saw everything..........in hindsight!". Our hero brings the flair of a porkchop salesman...in terms of sitting on the fence and the language to the scale of seven figures. He modestly calls it the inside story of the collapse of Lehman brothers but the story goes much deeper and reveals the inside thinking in the head of a wall street trader. Whether it is in the c-suite or at the floor, the trader never believes he is wrong. Every success turns into a maxim and failures soon forgotten. The nirvana is in staying positive no matter what happens. If everything is going south and you are still in the trade "you always hold on to your horses and never run for the barn door when everybody is rushing". If you chicken out, "never marry a bad trade". It is fate then which side of the balance sheet you end up on. The narrator likens the wall street's attitude to the subprime crisis as rushing in front of the train to pick up a 50 dollar bill. Seems true to the core...and yet one can't help admiring the courage of our hero who by sheer grit and ambition got on to the moving train only to find out that the driver is asleep on the wheel. Tirelessly he warns anyone and everyone that the train is gonna go down the cliff......his friends jump off with the loot but he stays on because it doesn't matter where you start but where you end. "
— Manav, 2/13/2014