Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

Want to get angry? Dayen's character-driven expose takes up where Michael Lewis's Big Short left off, in the chaotic, greedy aftermath of the real estate collapse. Among the millions—millions!—of homeowners herded into foreclosure as home values collapsed and sketchy mortgages came due, three Floridians followed the paper trail of their own foreclosures into a swamp of fraud and corruption, in which banks, mortgage servicers, and complicit judges swept aside law and centuries of legal precedent to hustle families out of their homes. You'll shake your head at the brazen deceit and at the rarity of the small but significant victories Dayen's three whistleblowers earned. And then you might pour yourself a stiff drink.