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Book SynopsisThe
New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword
"[Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book." —Joe Klein,
New York TimesTrade Review"A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about." -- Cory Doctorow
"Fascinating—and at times harrowing…Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear." -- Brian Naylor - NPR
"Lewis has written a countercultural, almost subversive, book: one that praises the intellectual curiosity, dedication, foresight and sense of mission he finds among America’s federal workers." -- Carlos Lozada - Washington Post
"[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government." -- Don Oldenburg - USA Today
"[
The Fifth Risk is] so prescient it’s goosepimpling." -- Jennifer Senior - New York Times
