Liar's Poker (Hodder Great Reads) Book

The game has some of the feel of trading, just as jousting has some of the feel of war. The questions a Liar’s Poker player are, up to a point, the same questions a bond trader asks himself. Is this a smart risk? Do I feel lucky? From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis's pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-80s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. Funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, Liar's Poker is a now fabled story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever. The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of  the number one bestsellers The Big Short and Flash Boys. 'If you thought Gordon Gekko of the Wall Street movie was an implausibly corrupt piece of fiction, see how you like the real thing. This rip-the-lid-off account of the bond-dealing brouhaha is the work of a real-life bond salesman.' -  The Sunday Times 'Wickedly funny' - Daily Express 'Hilarious' - New York Times

From mere trainee 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. This is a tale of greed and ambition set in an obsessed enclosed world.

Liar's Poker : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9780340839966 : : 05 Jun 2006 : The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of #1 bestsellers The Big Short and Flash Boys