Inheritance. Fraud. Deceit.

The devastating exposé of Trump’s financial failings that you need to read to understand the man whose deals are destroying the world economy.

'A first-rate financial thriller' NEW YORK TIMES
'Damning' SUNDAY TIMES
'Devastating ... thrilling' GUARDIAN

Donald J. Trump once declared life has ‘not been easy for me’. He spun a fable of how he turned a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar empire and argued this made him singularly qualified to lead.

Except none of it was true.

A meticulous masterpiece based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, this is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money – what he had and what he lost.

'Strikes at the heart of the Trump myth' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Groundbreaing reporting ... comprehensive, persuasive' NEW YORKER

"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 can’t 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 Satan’s origin story as we’re ever going to get" - Guardian

"Buettner and Craig are relentless in picking apart every Trump misstatement … the pattern becomes clear … Lucky Loser shows us that Trump’s self-invention was largely based on lies" - Literary Review

"An expansive account of the New York Times reporters’ award-winning investigation into Trump’s finances" - Financial Times, *Books of the Year*