Penguin presents the audiobook release of The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis.

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Section of Energy – a company that deals with a few of the most powerful risks facing humanity – waited to welcome the incoming administration’s transition team. No one appeared. Over the US government, a similar thing happened: nothing.

People don’t notice when stuff moves right. This is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from financing free school foods, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting severe weather occasions. It measures in where private investment worries to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk.

And now, authorities is under attack. By its own leaders.

In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that’s fuelling the destruction of the country’s fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the largest threat of all. It really is what you by no means learned that might have preserved you.