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Mueffling, Lea Brokaw, Dini von Mueffling and David Richenthal, Stephen and Cathy

Graham, Anna Scott Carter, June Black, Bruce and Alex Schnitzer, Peggy Siegal,

Jonathan Foreman, Plum Sykes and Toby Rowland, Euan Rellie and Lucy Sykes, Dorrit

Morley, Lela Rose, Gretchen Rubin, Molly Jong-Fast, Charles and Dafna Bonas, Anne

McElvoy, Aby Rosen and Samantha Boardman, Ariadne and Mario Calvo-Platero,

Mungo and Sandy Meehan, Steven Fox, Tina Brown, Jennifer Creel, Susan and Hadley

Nagel, Ross and Susie Johnson, Ryan Biracree, Chloe Crespi, Saito Chichi, Kieran

McKenna, Sebastian Scolarici, David Frank, Robert Sassoon, Daryl Isaacs, Sarah Crow,

Ed Stern, Philip Howard, Greville Ward, Thorold Barker and Jenny Anderson, David

Pflumenbaum, Colin Sterling, Anya Strzemien, Rob Fishman, Kenny Lerer, Joe

Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Dylan Ratigan, Robin Goldman, Mark

Hoffman, Jonathan Wald, Tyler Mathison, Dennis Kneale, Kerima Greene, Bill Griffeth,

Michele Cabruso-Cabrera, Larry Kudlow, Maria Bartiromo, Erin Burnett, Nick Dunn,

Ellen Egeth, Steve Lewis, Sandy Cannold, Andrea Mantia, Jim Connor, Ryan Ruggiero,

and all the team at CNBC.

Thank you to all my family: my parents, Simon and Jill Ward (thank you for being so

patient: I know this ruined your trip to New York); to my sisters Lucinda Napier and

Antonia Crawshay and your awesome husbands and children, I apologize for being so

short on the phone.

An especial thanks to Veronica Wadley, the British editor who discovered me back in

1992. You taught me pretty much everything I know about journalism and have

supported me ever since.

Also, the team at home who make my life run seamlessly: Marcia Powell, Victoria

Doctora, and the nanny of all nannies, Zezy Barbosa. You know I could do nothing

without you.

There is one more person I think about now that this book is coming to a close.

Many years ago when I was a cub reporter on the British paper, the Independent, I told

the paper's literary editor, John Walsh, a charming, effervescent Irishman, that one day I'd

like to write a book. We were on the subway (the so-called London Tube) and I can still

recall the uncharacteristic look of derision on his face.

"Are you aware just how difficult that is? " he said. "It's . . . really, really hard."

It was at that moment I decided that by the time I was 40 I would have written a book--a

serious book on a significant subject that even John Walsh might want to read. So, thank

you, John Walsh, whom I have not seen since, for laying down the gauntlet.

Thanks also have to go to my husband of fifteen years, Matthew Doull--and

congratulations to him for his own much-deserved successes accomplished while I was

deep in this book.

But this book is dedicated to two young men who know far more about Lehman Brothers

than is healthy for two males who turned seven years old this year.

Orlando and Lorcan Doull have put up with "Mummy's annoying book" with humor, wit,

and patience way beyond your years.

Without the joy of seeing you each night, of hearing all about your adventures--imaginary

and real--and without the mandatory snuggles and chat that you demand every evening,

this book would not be worth anything. Nothing I ever write could come close to the

greatest accomplishment of my life--which is producing you.

As we say to each other every night at home: "I love you to infinity." This is for you, in

the hope that when you read it, you will already be becoming men whose dreams are

limitless but who never lose touch with reality.

Mummy

Index

Abbey National

ABN Amro

Adams, James F.

Adams, Richard

Ahearn, Bill

Ainslie, Michael

Akers, John

Altman, Roger

Alvarez & Marsal

American Express. See also Shearson American Express

credit card business and

Golub and

merger and

Robinson and

American International Group (AIG)

Antoncic, Madeleine

Archstone-Smith

AT&T

Auletta, Ken

Ayres, Charlie

Bailey,