What went on behind closed doors during the early days of the troubled wedding of Bank of America Corporation and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.?

Out next week, Greg Farrell’s Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America offers an intimate look into the what happened to Merrill Lynch … and how the blended family of top-level executives from both institutions fared in the course of the merger.