So compelling, filled with so many fascinating characters and new information... The book reads more like a delicious page-turning novel... Destined to become an instant classic...my nominee for financial book of the year

A terrific book, a terrific read... I recommend it highly... It's a hell of a story

Tells a surprisingly captivating story. It turns out that a firm like Renaissance, filled with nerdy academics trying to solve the market's secrets, is way more interesting than your typical greed-is-good hedge fund

Gregory Zuckerman lifts the lid on the most fascinating man in financial markets...superb reporting

Zuckerman brings the reader so close to the firm's inner workings that you can almost catch a whiff of the billionaire's Merit cigarette

A gripping biography of investment game changer Jim Simons... readers looking to understand how the economy got where it is should eat this up

Worthwhile reading for budding plutocrats and numerate investors alike

Zuckerman vividly tells the story of how Jim Simons and his team of scientists developed the most successful quantitative trading operation in history. . . . Immensely enjoyable

An extremely well-written and engaging book . . . a must read, and a fun one at that

Leave it to the Wall Street Journal's Greg Zuckerman to lay open the golden mysteries of quantitative investing. With this fine, humane, and eye-opening book, he's well and truly broken the code

The fascinating, page-turning tale of a complicated man and the movement he started, rendered in accessible prose and full of bravura storytelling

One of Inc.com's Top 20 Business and Leadership Books of the Year 2019

A compelling read

A fascinating, sometimes hair-raising new book . . . A book which on the one hand tells us some really important things about the nature of money, power and the nature of the modern economy, but on the other is just full of some of the most fascinating stories.

The captivating stories of the powerful commodity traders and mystery actors of markets and geopolitics

The blistering tale of a clutch of hard-charging international commodity trading houses such as Cargill and Glencore. The authors, both former FT journalists, trace how they harnessed the commodity boom and the setbacks they now face as climate change casts a shadow over their business model.

A very impressive profile of an industry that has long preferred to avoid the spotlight . . . The authors deftly weave stories of the individual traders and their trades with an account of the major shifts in the global economy of the past 70 years . . . Extensively researched and well written throughout . . . I would not hesitate to recommend this book.

A thriller . . . An engaging story of secret deals and embargo-evasion.

An entertaining history of the rise of the international trading houses and the charismatic, freewheeling risk-takers who headed them.

The story of how a few commodity-trading firms quietly reconfigured the world economy, making fortunes, juggling embargoes and swaying geopolitics.

There was no single, dominant, astonishing voice in the wilderness in the debate on the credit crunch, but... Edward Chancellor, an economic historian, foresaw almost everything.