Gillian Tett

A look inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives to explain how the business of slicing and dicing debt led to the global credit crunch.

Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan's brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle come to life, and their struggle against th...