The release date for the English version of 'The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy' by
Michael Lewis is Dec 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The US Department of Energy's managers waited to inform the administration's transition team on the agency they would soon be leading the morning after Trump was elected president. No one showed up. The narratives in every department were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between, and those who did appear were remarkably ignorant of the workings of their new workplace.
In his masterful account of the Trump administration's disastrous transition, Michael Lewis takes us inside the war chambers of a government whose officials are attacking it out of deliberate ignorance and greed. From monitoring and identifying black-market uranium before terrorists do, to forecasting severe weather occurrences and securing the quality of our food and pharmaceuticals, the government oversees a wide range of vital services that support and maintain our safety. The Fifth Risk deftly and powerfully lays out the ramifications of allowing those in charge of our system to be ignorant of its inner workings.