Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us. The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani Like Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker and Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate, this volume turns complex Wall Street maneuverings into high drama that is grippingand almost immediately comprehensibleto the lay reader…Mr. Cohan writes with an insider's knowledge of the workings of Wall Street, a reporter's investigative instincts and a natural storyteller's narrative command…makes for riveting, edge-of-the-seat reading