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Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis has since gone on to much wider fame but his early tell-most account of his time at Salomon Brothers in the mid eighties succeeds in providing a nice deep look at exactly that, which will appeal if that’s the kind of thing you’re into. 

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