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**Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011** **The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG** From 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 story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system. The book * Reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg * Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York * Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer *Fatal Risk* is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.