You can call it a colossal failure to find a novel cover.

Michael Lewis’ new take on the mortgage-fueled credit crisis of 2007, “The Big Short,” sports a cover photo that bears a striking resemblance to the Chinese edition of Lawrence McDonald and Patrick Robinson’s “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.”

McDonald and Robinson’s business tome, published last February, features Wall Street’s iconic bull statue. His publishers in China, Yilin Press, selected the image of a fishhook with a roll of money as lure.

Lewis’s book cover, set to be released March 15, seems to have just the same graphic.

Apparently, Lewis’s publisher W. W. Norton & Company wasn’t aware that the Lehman-focused book was printed in China with the same cover photo, said one source.

“They just picked from the same Getty Images,” the source added.