Street Fighters - The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street

This is a very detailed account of what had transpired in the last remaining days of Bear Stearn. The book focused on the interactions of the key insiders during the last few days and hours. The book gives a good background on the last management team and their precursors in order to make sense of what culminated into the condition of Bear Stearn prior to its demise. The accounts give readers a good sense of the management not having the foresight and decisiveness to control the crisis at hand, and finally exhausted all of their options at the very last minute, and became vulnerable prize for the taking.