Liar's Poker: Michael Lewis

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar`s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street`s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush.

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 the original story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever.