ALONG CAME A SCAPEGOAT

摘要

For anyone burning to see financial wrongdoers put behind bars, Tom Hayes might seem like an ideal white-collar villain. As a superstar derivatives trader at a series of investment banks in London and Tokyo, Hayes masterminded a conspiracy to manipulate a benchmark interest rate that underlies hundreds of trillions of dollars' worth of loans. British prosecutors-armed with gigabytes of evidence showing Hayes caught in the act, plus his own taped confessions-put him on trial in 2015; he's now serving an ll-year sentence. It was an epic downfall, and David Enrich, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, recounts it well in The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History (HarperCollins, $29.99). One thing readers won't get out of ' this exhaustively reported tale, however, is schadenfreude.