He described the story in detail from just after the fall of Bear Stearns to the use of TARP money to pay out some $250 billion to the largest banks. He has incredible detail on various meetings, personal perspectives on major players, and blow-by-blow accounts that led to Lehman’s bankruptcy, seizing Fannie and Freddie, bailing out AIG, and all the rest. Sorkin presents this six month or so period basically in chronological order and really names names. He interviewed some two hundred players and seemingly every one of them is in the book.