Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a “secret market” beneath the financial market we all know. Guy Lawson has traveled the world reporting for The New York Times, Harper's, GQ, Rolling Stone, and the London Observer - on a wide range of subjects—conflict in the Balkans, the Mexican drug wars, ice hockey in northern Canada, life in a Bowery flophouse, Hezbollah suicide bombers, the Rwandan genocide war crime trials and more…