Overview

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis’ pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world’s most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

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* 'An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling... one of the great business books of all time' - Punch * 'Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay...' - The Sunday Times * 'Immense verve and wit' - 20/20 Magazine * 'A highly immoral book' - Daily Mail * 'Wickedly funny' - Daily Express * 'As traders would say, this book is a buy' - Financial Times

An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time Punch Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay ... The Sunday Times Immense verve and wit 20/20 Magazine A highly immoral book Daily Mail Wickedly funny Daily Express As traders would say, this book is a buy Financial Times

Author Information

Michael Lewis is a former banker who worked at Salomon Brothers in the height of Eighties boom. He writes regularly as a journalist and is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, LIAR S POKER.

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