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One drops out of his mouth, and I stare at the pill on the filthy floor in horror as he snatches it back up. But later that year, he passed out at Houston’s in the basement of the Citigroup building on a Tuesday night and woke up in an Ecuadorian prison Friday morning. An hour later, Marmite came over with a fist full of them.

Turney Duff yields to temptation at every turn, and the sheer volume of criminal behavior he saw, and even participated in, is astonishing…If you want to see Wall Street’s seamy underbelly firsthand, read this book.
–Frank Partnoy, bestselling author of F.I.A.S.C.O and Infectious Greed

If you took Gordon Gekko, Bud Fox, a copy of Bright Lights, Big City, and threw them in a blender with an ounce of cocaine, a bottle of Patron Tequila, and your favorite teddy bear you’d have yourself a Buy Side smoothie.

I soon discovered his only interests outside of Biotech were the Red Sox and fighting people who weren’t Irish. He replies that you always make money long Intel and short AMD… or maybe it was the other way around.

Good god. The banks would get excited about having both sides of the trade, but we’d keep moving our markets around and never let them get the block on the tape.

Jobs were plentiful. In fact, he exited this slimy lifestyle just before the life consumed him. Let’s call him Cleveland. They understood it wasn't necessarily bad news if a company press release reported a drug failed during a clinical trial. He responds, “Liiiiiiimit dooooooooooooown?”

Yeah, limit down. Duff lucidly depicts the hedonistic emptiness of the Wall Street culture, as well as the callous, cutthroat environment that makes most careers on the Street very brief.

Incubating trends, including decoding the human genome, recently exploded into the stock market. I didn’t even know Cleveland took drugs. Cleveland taught me two essential things about Wall Street. We’re at the rooftop bar pounding 13-dollar Heinekens, and I’m introduced to the first member of what will become the Healthcare Mafia.