Liar's Poker
On sale
30th June 2011
Price: £9.99
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Published for the first time in flipback – the new, portable, stylish format that’s taken Europe by storm.
FUNNY, FRIGHTENING, BREATHLESS AND HEARTLESS, LIAR’S POKER IS A TALE OF HYSTERICAL GREED AND AMBITION SET IN AN OBSESSED, ENCLOSED WORLD.
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-1980s when they were probably the world’s most powerful and profitable merchant bank.
FUNNY, FRIGHTENING, BREATHLESS AND HEARTLESS, LIAR’S POKER IS A TALE OF HYSTERICAL GREED AND AMBITION SET IN AN OBSESSED, ENCLOSED WORLD.
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-1980s when they were probably the world’s most powerful and profitable merchant bank.
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Reviews
An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time
Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . .
Immense verve and wit
A highly immoral book
Wickedly funny
As traders would say, this book is a buy