About the book: 2008 / "Liars' Poker" is a documentary version of the story about investment banks, revealing the background of Tom Wolfe's story "Bonfire of the Vanities" ). Lewis chronicles his hero's dizzying journey through the trading floors of Salomon Brothers in London and New York during the turbulent mid-1980s, when the firm was the most powerful and profitable investment bank in the world. The story of this journey - from a simple trainee to a journeyman geek and to the victorious title of "big trunk" - turned out to be funny and frightening. This is a frank, ruthless and breathtaking tale of hysterical greed and ambition in the closed, maniacally obsessed world of the bond market. The excesses of Wall Street, which were a central theme of the 1980s, were accurately reflected in Liar's Poker».