The original classic that revealed the truth about ambition, greed and excess in London and Wall Street, by the number 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys 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. 'The funniest book about Wall Street I have ever read' Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities