**Brand New for 2018**: An updated edition featuring a new afterword to mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis. The brilliantly reported *New York Times* bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the crisis, the basis for the HBO film. "**Too Big To Fail** is too good to put down. . . . It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly." \u2014*The Economist* In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin—a *New York Times* columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters—delivers the first definitive blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.