The book is about what kind of fraud and deception are hidden under the daily actions of the guys on Wall Street, whether all this is punishable by law and what conclusion should be drawn from everything heard. Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart was the first to show that the nobility and respectability of Wall Street are just the tip of the iceberg, beneath which lies a world of corruption and criminal conspiracies, price manipulation, and the illegal use of proprietary information. difficult to define. On the one hand, this is a journalistic investigation: the book is based solely on real events, documents and trade information, and on the other hand, it is an action-packed thriller, where the description of human nature, big business and large-scale speculation is filled with unprecedented drama.