Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkina New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reportersdelivers the first definitive blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.