LIARS POKER

The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the author of bestsellers THE BIG SHORT and THE PREMONITION.__________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.__________`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`So memorable and alive . . . one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era.` Fortune`The funniest book on Wall Street I`ve ever read.` Tom Wolfe`Wickedly funny` Daily Express`Hilarious` New York Times