Books like Greed by Ryan, Chris

First‑person memoir of Neo‑classical Manhattan investment banker Patrick Bateman, whose glossy façade masks a brutal, psychopathic descent into violence.

Michael Lewis explains how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, focusing on subprime mortgages, CDOs, and the people who bet against the collapsing market.

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s *Too Big to Fail* offers a documented, real‑time narrative of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, tracing the decisions and personalities that shaped the collapse and the emergency policy responses.

‘Barbarians at the Gate’ chronicles the record‑setting 1988 leveraged‑buyout of RJR Nabisco, revealing the tactics, personalities, and business dynamics that shaped a defining moment in American corporate history.

A candid, semi‑autobiographical look at 1980s Wall Street, following Michael Lewis from Princeton art history student to bond salesman at Salomon Brothers, exposing the culture of greed, humor, and intense competition that defined the era.

Jason Bourne, the man who knows nothing, finds himself in a nightmare version of himself, a killer who could be anyone.

A first‑hand account of losing one million dollars, exploring the psychological biases and speculative pitfalls that led to the loss and offering lessons for traders and investors.

FBI agent John Corey and his wife, Kate, hunt the terrorist who detonated the USS Cole in Yemen, uncovering a tangled web of espionage and revenge.

Jordan Belfort’s memoir recounts his rise as the charismatic CEO of Stratton Oakmont, the 1990s brokerage that became a symbol of Wall Street excess, and his eventual downfall under SEC and FBI scrutiny.

A thriller set in the aftermath of 9/11, exploring the dark side of the United States' war on terrorism.

A detailed, fact‑based account of the rise and fall of Enron, examining corporate misconduct and the impact on the U.S. energy market.

When U.S. and British intelligence uncover a looming Al Qaeda plot, they must disguise a seasoned war veteran as an Arab Taliban commander to infiltrate the enemy and avert catastrophe.

A disgraced Delta Force officer must stop a terrorist plot to weaponize Russian SAMs against the United States.

In the midst of the Syrian civil war, former SAS trooper Danny Black is drawn into a perilous MI6 mission to forge alliances with rebel forces and private military contractors, balancing loyalty and survival amid shifting geopolitical interests.

A high‑stakes thriller where SAS veteran Joe Mansfield, who witnessed the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound, finds his life and family targeted as a shadowy enemy plots a terror attack across the Atlantic.

Matt Browning, a former SAS assassin, is pulled back into deadly service when MI6 enlists him to stop a drug‑trafficking plot—only to find his past and a lethal secret tied to the elite unit The Increment.

A thrilling tale of espionage and survival in the Falkland Islands War, featuring the legendary Special Air Service.

Former SAS captain Will Jackson returns to Afghanistan, risking everything to prevent a devastating terrorist attack orchestrated by the Taliban.

A thriller about two SAS brothers, Sam and Jacob Redman, who face betrayal, secrecy and a conspiracy that could jeopardize world peace.

John Weisman’s thriller follows former CIA officer Tom Stafford as he covertly hunts an al‑Qa‘ida bombmaker across Washington, Paris, and the Middle East while also confronting a hostile branch of his own agency.

When a retired Navy SEAL with a bullet still lodged near his spine goes on the run, a former best friend must track him down before a vengeful revenge escalates into a fresh wave of terrorism.

Following a suicide bombing in central London, series SAS hero Danny Black is recruited to be part of an assassination squad, directed by a joint MI5/MI6/CIA committee and tasked with hunting down and killing the terrorist cells believed to be planning further atrocities. Early leads take them to a North London mosque and a one-armed hate cleric, whom the Home Secretary repeatedly tries and fails to expel from the country, a sleazy Saudi prince living in a Park Lane Hotel - on the surface a devout Muslim, he devotes himself to booze, drugs and hookers as soon as his family are out of the building - and a grizzled ex-Regiment guy who is spreading rumours that Diana was assassinated by the SAS in the tunnel in Paris because of her Arab lover. The trail of clues takes Danny to a training camp in the Yemen, but just as he has the enemy in his sights, he discovers that they are somehow one step ahead of him, and he begins to suspect that they are being topped off by someone close to home.