<b>Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011</b><p><b>The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG</b></p><p>From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. <i>Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG''s Corporate Suicide</i> tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system. The book<br/></p><ul><li>Reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg</li><li>Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York</li><li>Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York S