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Liar's Poker: The Hilarious Inside Story of 1980s Wall Street - from the no 1 bestselling author of THE BIG SHORT

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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.

Praise for Liar's Poker

  • An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time - PunchRead all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . . - The Sunday TimesImmense verve and wit - 20/20 MagazineA highly immoral book - Daily MailWickedly funny - Daily ExpressAs traders would say, this book is a buy - Financial Times

Michael Lewis

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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