Michael Lewis is the best business writer of our generation, and, it turns out, one of the luckiest. For his latest work, the best-selling author of The Big Short and Moneyball chose as his subject none other than Sam Bankman-Fried, who was the biggest story in finance last year and whose trial this October promises to be a barn burner—and will coincide with the release of Lewis's latest book, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.
Lewis's good luck consists not just in his choice of subject but in his timing: He was finishing the manuscript in the Bahamas just as the FTX empire came crashing down, leading to Bankman-Fried's arrest in November. If his publisher had put out the book a month earlier, it would not have included the juiciest part of the story—and, if Lewis had not figured out Bankman-Fried's true nature, put him in the mortifying position of being the author of a glowing biography of an infamous conman.
