If you could peer inside a megabank what would you see? Speaking with over 200 City insiders, Joris Luyendijk set out to understand the secretive, complex world of high finance. What emerged was a picture of fear and deep dysfunction. From the toxic short-termism of the ‘hire and fire’ culture, to technological and mathematical opacity and banks that know they are too big to fail, Luyendijk warns we have the blueprint for a new scandal, debacle or even crash.