Going Infinite; The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

#1 Instant New York Times Bestseller • Now featuring a new afterword on Bankman-Fried’s trial and its aftermath

A Best Book of 2023 – The New Yorker, Fortune, PureWow

"Going Infinite is Lewis at his best—marshaling a complex global story while capturing the human details that make it compelling." — Jesse Armstrong, Times Literary Supplement

"A wildly entertaining, surprising, and ultimately tragic story." — London Review of Books

From Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, comes a gripping account of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic figure at its center.

When Lewis first encountered Sam Bankman-Fried, he was crypto’s wunderkind, the youngest billionaire in the world, and a magnet for CEOs, celebrities, and world leaders. With his disheveled look—cargo shorts, limp socks, and a distracted gaze darting between video games and Zoom calls—he seemed an unlikely financial titan.

In Going Infinite, Lewis delves into the mind of Bankman-Fried, charting his meteoric rise, shocking downfall, and the financial chaos left in his wake. This riveting psychological and financial drama explores high-frequency trading, cryptocurrency booms, and the legal reckoning that followed.

A masterful blend of biography, finance, and investigative storytelling, Going Infinite captures the story of a man who defied the rules—until he couldn’t anymore.