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. Liar's Poker is the culmination
of those heady, frenzied years--a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and
turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of
the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made
ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing
and deception, here is Michael Lewis's knowing and hilarious insider's
account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous
fortune.