In the mid 1990s, at a vast hotel complex on a private Florida beach, dozens of bankers from JP Morgan gathered for what was to become a legendary off-site meeting. It was a wild weekend. But among the drinking, nightclubbing and fist-fights lay a more serious purpose - to assess the possibility of building a business around the new-fangled concepts of credit derivatives. The group at the heart of this revolution was an intense team, made up of individuals with a supreme sense of loyalty to each other and to the bank - for years, nothing could break them apart. But when, finally, the team dispersed, the innovations spread far beyond their original intentions, producing perversions in the mortgage market that ultimately culminated in disaster. Part real-life thriller, part investigation and expose, this searing narrative takes us deep inside the shadowy world of complex finance - a perfect storm for the credit crunch

吉蓮•邰蒂(Gillian Tett)，任職於全球一流的金融和商業報刊《金融時報》，負責金融市場的全球報道。2007年，因對資本市場的齣色報道獲得英國錶彰財經記者的高級奬項溫科特奬；2008年，榮獲年度英國商業記者稱號。她曾代理《金融時報》的列辛頓專欄（企業和金融專欄）、擔任東京記者站主任、經濟記者和駐外記者，經常在全球金融市場大會中發錶自己的觀點。她擁有劍橋大學的社會人類學博士學位，2003年，齣版瞭關於日本銀行業危機的一本書《拯救日本：泡沫崩潰後的銀行危機與華爾街行動》。