Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIGFrom the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside stor...

No shortage of material has been written on the financial crisis. From the collapse of Bear Stearns to Lehman and more, the subject has been well covered. However, one story the central story has largely remained uncovered: that of AIG, the behemoth at the center of the storm. Bear disappeared and the world survived, Lehman collapsed yet the markets saw another day, a multitude of banks have folded, but the world has kept spinning. What everyone from AIG executives to government and electe...