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Longlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015. In September 2008- HBOS- with assets larger than Britains GDP- was on the edge of bankruptcy. Its collapse would have created the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s and a major political disaster for the Labour government. With the help and support of Gordon Brown- HBOS was rescued by Lloyds TSB- one of the countrys strongest banks- in circumstances that have since become the stuff of City legend. In the highly acclaimed Black Horse Ride- veteran financial journalist Ivan Fallon brings together the accounts of all the power players involved in this dramatic saga for the first time- including the key roles played by the Governor of the Bank of England- the Prime Minister and the Treasury. Through a compelling cast of prominent bankers- politicians and investors- Fallon reveals what really occurred in the aftermath of the crash of Lehman Brothers- perhaps the worst single day in banking history....