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 lurks a world of corruption and criminal conspiracies, price manipulation and the illegal use of proprietary information. The genre of James Stewart's book is difficult to define. On the one hand, this is a journalistic investigation: the book is based exclusively 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.