As the clock ticked down to midnight on December 31, 1999, the world held its breath. Experts warned that airplanes would fall from the sky, nuclear power plants would melt down, and the global banking system would collapse—all because early computer programmers had used two digits instead of four to represent the year. This was the Y2K bug, the first global panic of the digital age. "The Bug That Cost Billions" revisits the hysteria and the massive engineering effort that took place behin...

***NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart**'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad — often in the same sentence' Sunday Times'The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine WelshAn outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it a...

***NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open**'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something...