Liar's Poker: Playing the Money Markets by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis retired from being a bond salesman at the age of 28, having risen from being a mere trainee to become a big-swinging-dick, a bond salesman who could shift millions of pounds worth of bonds with just one phone call. Michael Lewis looks back at his career, at the Golden Age of banking, at the company he worked for and the memorable figures within it, and at the spectacle of the financial boom which marks the 80s - a spectacle of greed, dear and human folly.