Liar’s Poker

‘An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling… one of the great business books of all time’ Punch ‘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… Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay… The Sunday Times 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 ‘Immense verve and wit’ 20/20 Magazine ‘Should be made a legally required component of every MBA course’ Management Today ‘As traders would say, this book is a buy’ Financial Times ‘A highly immoral book’ Daily Mail ‘Wickedly funny’ Daily Express