Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. This title tells the story of the trader John Paulson who predicted the economic crash in 2008 - and made the biggest windfall in history.

Autumn 2008. As the world's financial markets collapse, one man is left standing tall. John Paulson, the softly-spoken Hedge Fund legend who predicted the crash. By betting against the housing market and the banks he earned $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year.That's the largest trading windfall in history, by far. And this is how he did it.