by Turney Duff
First published 2013
Turney Duff arrives at Wall Street as a small-town kid from Maine with big dreams. He lands at Morgan Stanley as a trainee, then moves to the massive Galleon Group hedge fund run by Raj Rajaratnam. Now on the buy side, Duff holds real power. Brokers court him for business. He makes huge bets on stocks rising or falling. The money flows in torrents. But the job comes with expectations. Duff must extract information from sell-side contacts through elaborate social rituals. Soon he discovers a world where cocaine and sex grease billion-dollar deals. At Argus Partners and J.L. Berkowitz, Duff becomes one of the Street's top healthcare traders. His income hits seven figures. By night, he tears through Manhattan nightclubs, consuming whatever drugs might fill the growing emptiness inside. The lifestyle that seemed manageable begins consuming him. Duff faces a choice between his lucrative career and his survival.
Genres: addiction, business, crime, non-fiction, 21st-century, finance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-dilemma, rags-to-riches
Setting: Maine, Manhattan, Wall Street
Period: 21st Century
322 pages · Kindle Edition · Crown Currency
Content warnings: addiction, drug-use, substance-abuse