One day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick - the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank - sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin. Across the table sat Tom Lyons, a business reporter with the "Sunday Times". Seven months later, the two met for the first of what would be seventeen formal, tape-recorded interviews over the course of 2010. In these interviews, FitzPatrick talked at length and in detail about his banking experiences and philosophy, his colleagues and clients, his investments, his public disgrace, his arrest and his bankruptcy. Lyons and his colleague Brian Carey, who have been covering the Anglo story brilliantly since the bank's crisis began in 2007, have drawn on the FitzPatrick tapes and on their many sources within Anglo, the state and the business community to tell the story of that crisis - and of the man who became the face of it.
- ISBN10 0241951895
- ISBN13 9780241951897
- Publish Date 5 January 2012 (first published 9 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 November 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English