In his number 1 bestseller, Vince Cable, 'the sage of the credit crunch' (Daily Telegraph) explains how we got in to this mess and what it means. 'The best book you can read to understand what on earth is going on out there.' Independent

'No one has a greater right to say: "I told you so" than Vince Cable... It is much to Cable's credit that he does not pause to gloat... The Storm is an urgent admirably clear book which studies each stage of the crisis and asks what it portends.' Nick Cohen, Observer

In this urgent and timely book, Vince Cable explains the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to it. He shows that although the downturn is global, the complacency of the British government towards the huge 'bubble' in property prices and high levels of personal debt, combined with increasingly exotic trading within the financial markets, has left Britain badly exposed.

This paperback editon has been fully revised and updated to include Vince Cable's latest assessment of the recession.

'Anybody with an interest in the causes of the deepest economic crisis since the great depression - and that is most of us these days - can easily digest it in a single sitting, and be much better informed as a result.' Larry Elliott, Guardian

'The Storm chronicles complex events as it explains them, pulling in just the right amount of wit, history, anecdote and theory along the way... it deploys an almost Galbraith-like breadth of view and lightness of touch to otherwise impenetrable subjects.' Sean O'Grady, Independent