by Michael Lewis (Author)Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative of the Trump administration's botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed "A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about." - Cory Doctorow "Fascinating―and at times harrowing…Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear." - Brian Naylor, NPR "Lewis has written a countercultural, almost subversive, book: one that praises the intellectual curiosity, dedication, foresight and sense of mission he finds among America’s federal workers." - Carlos Lozada, Washington Post The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives from ensuring the safety of our food and drugs and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black market uranium before the terrorists do. The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MICHAEL MONROE LEWIS, the best-selling American author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Flash Boys, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Home Game and The Big Short, has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.