Dennis Kneale

Read Bear Trap by Bill Bamber (a credit-swaps trader for doomed Bear Stearns) and Andrew Spencer about the fall of Bear Stearns. Told from an insider's intimate perch, it is fearless in its willingness to name names and reveal details of a firm destined for collapse. It conjures up another title: You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, because chances are Bamber now is a dead-man-walking on Wall Street. I offer up Bear Trap because it's a pretty smart take on things smack in the middle of a broader, unfolding crisis.