Portions of this book appeared in the London Review of Books and The New Yorker. I am grateful to the editors for their help and support. I’d particularly like to thank Mary-Kay Wilmers at the LRB and Henry Finder at the The New Yorker.
I would like to thank Matt Weiland and Sam MacLaughlin at Norton, and Julian Loose and Kate Murray-Browne at Faber, for their help with this book. As always, my agent Caradoc King has been an invaluable source of advice and support and succor.
For off-the-record chats over the years I would like to thank my friends in the world of finance, especially those who’d prefer not to be publicly thanked.