Thursday, April 5, 2018

Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals Paperback – May 10, 2016 by John LeFevre (Grove Press)



The book is really entertaining. All the deviance that are said about Wall Street is thoroughly pictures here. I did some research on the author and found some articles where they had done fact checks and interviews with his colleagues. Looks like fiction and exaggeration played a major role during the writing process. For example, one debunked story was the fight with Manchester United squad in Hong Kong. Based on the information the author provides about the deal he was working on when the fight happened, the timeline would suggest 2006. Apparently Manchester United never had any Hong Kong tour in 05, 06 or 07.

But all in all, it's a very funny and entertaining read, which would probably make a good movie too.

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