Lewis has been “traveling with and interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried” for six months, and was planning to write about the FTX co-founder long before this month’s scandal.

Reading “Going Infinite,” Michael Lewis’s strange new book about the disgraced crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, you soon get the sense that Lewis felt unusually flummoxed by his material.

With his new book about the crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried — and new questions about his old work — the famously charmed writer finds himself under a microscope.