Longlisted for the FT & Mc Kinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 In September 2008 HBOS with assets larger than Britain's GDP was on the edge of bankruptcy Its collapse would have created the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s & a major political disaster for the Labour government With the help & support of Gordon Brown HBOS was rescued by Lloyds TSB one of the country's 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 & the Treasury Through a compelling cast of prominent bankers politicians & investors Fallon reveals what really occurred in the aftermath of the crash of Lehman Brothers perhaps the worst single day in banking history