Flash Boys Review: Lewis Takes On Wall Street Minus Heft

Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys, a book with the difficult task of turning a mass audience on to the dry topic of high frequency trading, is having a bigger impact on a critical Wall Street discussion more than any book in memory.  The reason for this is not due to the book’s intellectual heft – Scott Patterson who wrote Quants and Dark Pools and Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi who wrote Broken Markets do a better job detailing the nuts and bolts of this complex topic.  The magic of Lewis, like that of a classic Disney movie, is to bring a story to…