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
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9780340839966Number of pages: 304Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 30 mm
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An amazing book,readable,funny and mind-boggling...one of the great business books of all timeRead all about it: headlong greed,inarticulate obscenity,Animal House horseplay . . .Immense verve and witA highly immoral bookWickedly funnyAs traders would say,this book is a buy
Professor Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is a bestselling American non-fiction author and financial journalist,best known for Moneyball,Flash Boys,and The Fifth Risk.
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