A first-rate financial thriller ... one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read ... A multi-generational saga * New York Times * Meticulously documented ... Buettner and Craig have such a trove of documents, they are able to prove, in incontrovertible detail, the reality under the hype that is Donald Trump ... This is a page turner, with spectacular anecdotes * Washington Post * Shows that the popular caricature of Trump as a canny real estate titan - one painstakingly crafted by him, and by television producers - is more fact than fiction. ... With scalpel-like precision, [ Buettner and Craig] paint a detailed portrait of just how much Trump was given to set him up for success in business, and the hundreds of millions of his father's money he squandered on bad deals ... Damning * Sunday Times * A page-turner ... Buettner and Craig delve more deeply into this story than anyone I've encountered * Guardian * Groundbreaking reporting ... comprehensive, persuasive, and packed with damning anecdotes * The New Yorker * Strikes at the heart of the Trump myth * Financial Times * I cant emphasise this enough: Lucky Loser is a gripping, page-turning read, devastating in its meticulousness and thrilling in its narrative. If the devil is in the detail, this book is as close to Satans origin story as were ever going to get -- Emma Brockes * Guardian * Buettner and Craig are relentless in picking apart every Trump misstatement the pattern becomes clear Lucky Loser shows us that Trumps self-invention was largely based on lies * Literary Review * An expansive account of the New York Times reporters award-winning investigation into Trumps finances * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *
