It was Wall Street`s toughest investment bank, taking risks where others feared to tread, run by testosterone-fuelled gamblers who hung a sign saying `let`s make nothing but money` over the trading floor. Yet in March 2008 the 85-year-old firm Bear Stearns was brought to its knees - and global economic meltdown began. With unprecedented access to the people at the eye of the financial storm, William Cohan tells the outrageous story of how Wall Street`s entire house of cards came crashing down. ` , edge-of-the-seat reading` - Michio Kakutani, The New York Times.