The greatest trade ever: how John Paulson bet against the markets and made $20 billion

The Greatest Trade Everis the thrilling story of the trader John Paulson who predicted the economic crash in 2008- and made the biggest windfall in history, by Gregory Zuckerman.

Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing.

John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - andThe Greatest Trade Everis the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 Billion for his fund and more than $4 Billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity.

John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it.

'The definitive account of a sensational trade' Michael Lewis, author ofThe Big Short

'Extraordinary, excellent'Observer

'A must-read for anyone fascinated by financial madness'Mail on Sunday

'A forensic, read-in-one-sitting book'Sunday Times

'Simply terrific. Easily the best of the post-crash financial books' Malcolm Gladwell

'A great page-turner and a great illuminator of the market's crash' John Helyar, author ofBarbarians at the Gate