
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis chronicles the cold-blooded response of Wall Street to the COVID pandemic. New York finance journalist Scott Patterson reports how savvy investors used the devastation of the pandemic to reap billions in profits.
Combining insider access with masterful storytelling, Patterson’s meticulously researched book tells the tales of the investors, scientists and mathematicians whose creativity, expertise and risk-taking created financial opportunities out of a worldwide disaster that killed millions.