They are computer nerds …" Arlidge was inclined to forgive Lewis for being one-sided: he "thinks flash trading is the next big crisis waiting to happen and must be eradicated". Lewis's book, wrote John Arlidge in the Sunday Times, "contains his most alarming message yet … Flash boys are not braying Gordon 'Greed is good' Gekkos or Jordan 'Wolf of Wall Street' Belforts who work in old-fashioned traders' bear pits. In Flash Boys, he turns his gaze on high-frequency computerised trading in US stock markets." John Gapper in the FT argued that "In terms of sheer storytelling technique, Flash Boys is remarkable" and that "Lewis reaches a stark conclusion: US stock markets are now rigged by traders who go to astonishing lengths to gain a millisecond edge over their rivals … But he carries the reader so firmly toward this conclusion that one ends up feeling a bit manipulated". He did it for the role of left tackle in American football in The Blind Side (2006), and for the science of picking baseball players in Moneyball (2003).
"M ichael Lewis has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects.
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