Crash Landing

Crash Landing is a true masterwork. Liz Hoffman's perceptive, well researched, and captivating look at how COVID transformed the business and financial industries should be on the shelf of every student of the business world. --David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chairman, The Carlyle Group; New York Times bestselling author of How to Invest A rare look inside the split -second, high-stakes decisions at the top of America's corporate giants. This book reflects Liz Hoffman's rare combination of valuable gifts: vivid writing, incredible access and sourcing, and actual insight. -- Mary Childs, author of national bestseller The Bond King, cohost of NPR's Planet Money Hoffman takes readers behind the scenes to show how corporate, business and government leaders responded to a once-in-century calamity. Crash Landing is full of drama. Those eager to prepare for the next crisis should read this book and heed its lessons. --Gregory Zuckerman, New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market There is a reason Liz Hoffman is known in journalism circles as a scoop machine: she gets people to talk. In Crash Landing she takes us inside the heads of the business world's biggest power players as they stare at an economic abyss. The result is a riveting chronicle of the boardroom brinksmanship that-mostly-succeeded, but also how this unprecedented era exposed new risks and thrust an uncomfortable spotlight on the role of corporate leaders that will endure. --Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale and The Rebel and the Kingdom