The story Lancaster tells — which is based on real people and real events from his own career — is of a macro trader. They call him “Boss.” He lives and breathes the markets, to the detriment of his relationships with family and friends. The “family” Boss spends his time with is his team at the trading desk — Elias, their smooth-talking, party-loving trader; Jerry, their economic model-builder trying to gain a foothold in a career that demands complete devotion; Rabbi, their brilliant but pessimistic analyst, always looking for the down side, and Lifecoach, the only woman on the team, part lawyer, part CFA, and part fixer who plays a mean game of beer pong.

With stock markets at historic highs, memories of the 2008 crash are in the air again. Heady markets can hide a multitude of sins. One of the biggest from the ’08 era is only now being fully told. In his new page-turner Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con, top investigator Jared Bibler unveils the astonishing story of how little Iceland’s top bankers took the whole country – and a sizable chunk of the wider world of global finance – on a wild and disastrous ride to crazy financial heights and, ultimately, ruin. Bibler led the team that uncovered Iceland’s bad-to-the-bone corruption. Now he tells the whole story, at a moment when we would all do well to be on guard again.

With stock markets at historic highs, memories of the 2008 crash are in the air again. Heady markets can hide a multitude of sins. One of the biggest from the ’08 era is only now being fully told. In his new page-turner Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con, top investigator Jared Bibler unveils the astonishing story of how little Iceland’s top bankers took the whole country – and a sizable chunk of the wider world of global finance – on a wild and disastrous ride to crazy financial heights and, ultimately, ruin. Bibler led the team that uncovered Iceland’s bad-to-the-bone corruption. Now he tells the whole story, at a moment when we would all do well to be on guard again.

Colin Lancaster is the author of the new novel Fed Up!: Success, Excess & Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader. A longtime Wall Street professional, he is based in London and Miami.