by Kate Kelly
First published 2009
The trading floor buzzes with desperate energy as executives at one of Wall Street's most powerful investment banks face their final weekend as an independent company. Senior partners scramble to save deals while junior traders watch their careers crumble. The firm's aggressive corporate culture, built on risk-taking and fierce competition, now accelerates its own destruction. Boardroom meetings stretch through the night as leaders who once commanded billions find themselves powerless against market forces. Employees clean out desks while phone calls determine who will survive the merger talks. Kelly captures the human cost when Wall Street titans fall, showing how corporate ambition becomes corporate tragedy in just seventy-two hours.
Genres: fiction, business, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: corporate-tragedy, high-stakes
Setting: Wall Street
Period: 21st Century
247 pages · Hardcover · Portfolio Hardcover