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 & London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful & profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities funny frightening breathless & heartless his is a tale of hysterical greed & ambition set in an obsessed enclosed world.