Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.

Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading—source of the most intractable problems—will have no advantage whatsoever.

The characters in Flash Boys are fabulous, each completely different from what you think of when you think “Wall Street guy.” Several have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world’s stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits.

The light that Lewis shines into the darkest corners of the financial world may not be good for your blood pressure, because if you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. But in the end, Flash Boys is an uplifting read. Here are people who have somehow preserved a moral sense in an environment where you don’t get paid for that; they have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it.

【美】邁剋爾•劉易斯（Michael Lewis）

美國超級暢銷書作傢，畢業於美國普林斯頓大學和英國倫敦經濟學院，曾任所羅門兄弟公司的債券交易員，後為《紐約時報》撰稿。他的成名之作《說謊者的撲剋牌》被公認是描寫20世紀80年代華爾街文化的經典名作，書中的精彩片段被各大媒體廣泛引用，對美國商業文化産生瞭重大的影響。2011年，其反思金融體係弊端的最新著作《大空頭》受到廣泛關注與好評。2014年齣版《高頻交易員》，再次受到讀者與媒體的追捧，上市第一周狂銷13萬冊，本書還成為2014年蘋果電子書店下載，非虛構類第一名！