“Michael Lewis’ The Big Short. He goes right to the people who have been instrumental in changes in the market; he worked at Salomon Brothers so he knows what he’s talking about, and he’s a good thinker. In his dialogue you’re getting action, and he manages to build up suspense. I think it’s just great writing.”
Tom Wolfe, author of Back to Blood
A tiny piece of a divided Sri Lanka is the setting for this artful and character-filled novel.
Old hostilities take on a modern slant between Cuba and the United States as an exile plots revenge against ‘El Commandante.’
Even geniuses make mistakes, says astrophysicist Mario Livio.
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