Book : Straight To Hell True Tales Of Deviance, Debauchery,.

-Titulo Original : Straight To Hell True Tales Of Deviance, Debauchery, And Billion-dollar Deals

-Fabricante :

Grove Press

-Descripcion Original:

“Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I’d wonder where the rest of my money went.”-@GSElevatorDarkly funny, remarkably revealing, and utterly unapologetic, Straight to Hell is John LeFevre’s own account of his adventures as a globe-conquering investment banker whose career spanned New York, London, and Hong Kong. Sitting above the “Chinese Wall” separating investment banking and sales and trading, in a senior position with a unique vantage point, LeFevre did billion-dollar deals with sovereign borrowers, prestigious multinational corporations, and every bank on Wall Street, not to mention Chinese tycoons and Indonesian thugs, and shot up the ranks to be one of the most prolific bond syndicate managers in Asia. He also got banned from the Four Seasons, where he was living at the time, totaled his brand-new Maserati, and indulged in riotous debauchery on and off the trading floor.Hundreds of thousands follow LeFevre’s @GSElevator Twitter account; Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation into his tweets, and when his true identity was revealed, it created a national media firestorm-but that was only part of the story. Straight to Hell delves deep inside an industry that is both envied and reviled, taking you from the training programs, trading floors, and roadshows to private planes, shady deals, and after-hours overindulgence. This is not a moralistic tale of redemption. Full of shocking rule-breaking, frat-boyish antics, and win-at-all-cost schemes, Straight to Hell brazenly pulls back the curtain on the deviant and absolutely excessive world of finance. Also included are some of the best lines from @GSElevator, created and curated by LeFevre.Prepare yourself and buckle up, because this is one of the most entertaining and eye-opening books ever written about the world of finance. Review A New York Times BestsellerOne of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Must-Reads of SummerA Time magazine Ultimate Summer Reads PickAn Amazon Best Book of the Month in Business/Leadership & Humor/EntertainmentA Publishers Weekly Notable Debut and Bestseller (#18)“Shocking and sordid-and so much fun.”-New York Daily News“Shots are drunk, nether parts are exposed and rubbed against food, bread rolls are hurled, drugs are inhaled and prostitutes paid. It’s Bertie Wooster’s Drones Club via the darker corners of Edward St. Aubyn and Bret Easton Ellis.”-Wall Street Journal“LeFevre . . . sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging, investment bankers.”-Entertainment Weekly“If you thought the Wall Street culture portrayed in his tweets was bad, the one in LeFevre’s new book Straight to Hell is worse.”-CNN Money“LeFevre’s workplace anecdotes include tales of nastiness, sabotage, favoritism, sexism, racism, expense-account padding, and legally questionable collusion.”-New Yorker“Dont mistake this book for something it doesnt strive to be. The core themes of Straight to Hell survive attacks on its claims to credibility, and the book is not about boasting so much as entertainment. So should you read it? Maybe. It depends on your appetite for debauchery . . . Straight to Hell . . . offers a window into a deviant culture, and suggests the mechanisms by which it perpetuates itself, even in today’s climate.”-Newsweek“Theres no question that [LeFevre] knows his way around the business, and its a dirty one. Theres collusion, competition, nepotism, and a whole lot of reprehensible stuff going on in the business side, and its fascinating. . . . A great read.”-Business Insider“LeFevre’s stories are eye-opening. Also I’m pretty sure he confesses to several felonies, and there’s a price-fixing conference in a Hong Kong hotel room that I hope he ran by his lawyer. But you don’t want to read about bond deals. You want drugs and hookers. LeFevre delivers them with overwhelming force . . . Teenage boys at Choate will want to be investment bankers after reading Straight to Hell.”-Bloomb