Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals

LeFevre, John

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Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015

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Review: Advance Praise for "Straight to Hell"
"Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it's not a day at Hunter S. Thompson's ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You'd be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth."--"Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for John LeFevre and @GSElevator
"Darkly funny."--"New York Times"
"Always amusing."--"USA Today"
"Popular."--"Wall Street Journal"
"We can't get enough."--Politico
"Lefevre built an impressive reputation at Citigroup, earning the respect of his colleagues and peers for his ballsy pricing calls and smooth salesmanship."--Reuters
"Hilarious."--Business Insider

Advance Praise for "Straight to Hell"
Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it s not a day at Hunter S. Thompson s ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You d be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth. "Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for John LeFevre and @GSElevator
Darkly funny. "New York Times"
Always amusing. "USA Today"
Popular. "Wall Street Journal"
We can t get enough. Politico
Lefevre built an impressive reputation at Citigroup, earning the respect of his colleagues and peers for his ballsy pricing calls and smooth salesmanship. Reuters
Hilarious. Business Insider"

Advance Praise for "Straight to Hell"
LeFevre . . . sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging, investment bankers. "Entertainment Weekly"
Reads like a frat boy s fever dream of the highflying life: morning drinking, late-night drinking, and drinking all the hours in between; pranks, bar fights, cheating, travel, and prostitutes. . . . Equal parts fun and train wreck, this is a tale engineered to astonish. "Publishers Weekly"
Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it s not a day at Hunter S. Thompson s ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You d be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth. "Kirkus Reviews"
Praise for John LeFevre and @GSElevator
Darkly funny. "New York Times"
Always amusing. "USA Today"
We can t get enough. Politico
Lefevre built an impressive reputation at Citigroup, earning the respect of his colleagues and peers for his ballsy pricing calls and smooth salesmanship. Reuters
Hilarious. Business Insider"

Advance Praise for "Straight to Hell"
One of "Entertainment Weekly" s 10 Must-Reads of Summer
A "Time" magazine Ultimate Summer Reads Pick
An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Business/Leadership & Humor/Entertainment
Shocking and sordidand so much fun. "New York Daily News"
LeFevre . . . sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging, investment bankers. "Entertainment Weekly"
If you thought the Wall Street culture portrayed in his tweets was bad, the one in LeFevre s new book "Straight to Hell" is worse. "CNN Money"
LeFevre s stories are eye-opening. Also I m pretty sure he confesses to several felonies, and there s a price-fixing conference in a Hong Kong hotel room that I hope he ran by his lawyer. But you don t want to read about bond deals. You want drugs and hookers. LeFevre delivers them with overwhelming force . . . Teenage boys at Choate will want to be investment bankers after reading "Straight to Hell." "Bloomberg Businessweek"
Reads like a frat boy s fever dream of the highflying life: morning drinking, late-night drinking, and drinking all the hours in between; pranks, bar fights, cheating, travel, and prostitutes. . . . Equal parts fun and train wreck, this is a tale engineered to astonish. "Publishers Weekly"
Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it s not a day at Hunter S. Thompson s ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You d be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth. "Kirkus Reviews""

One of "Entertainment Weekly" s 10 Must-Reads of Summer
A "Time" magazine Ultimate Summer Reads Pick
An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Business/Leadership & Humor/Entertainment
Shocking and sordidand so much fun. "New York Daily News"
LeFevre . . . sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging, investment bankers. "Entertainment Weekly"
If you thought the Wall Street culture portrayed in his tweets was bad, the one in LeFevre s new book "Straight to Hell" is worse. "CNN Money"
There's no question that [LeFevre] knows his way around the business, and it's a dirty one. There's collusion, competition, nepotism, and a whole lot of reprehensible stuff going on in the business side, and it's fascinating. . . . A great read. "Business Insider"
LeFevre s stories are eye-opening. Also I m pretty sure he confesses to several felonies, and there s a price-fixing conference in a Hong Kong hotel room that I hope he ran by his lawyer. But you don t want to read about bond deals. You want drugs and hookers. LeFevre delivers them with overwhelming force . . . Teenage boys at Choate will want to be investment bankers after reading "Straight to Hell." "Bloomberg Businessweek"
In some memoirs, the author tries to pull back the curtain to provide a glimpse into a particular time and place, but LeFevre attempts to rip the drapes right off. He gives a naked look at how business in the world of finance is conducted. LeFevre . . . doesn t shy away from witnessing and partaking in some of the seedier antics . . . You may not like LeFevre's tact, but he knows what he's talking about. CNBC
Reads like a frat boy s fever dream of the highflying life: morning drinking, late-night drinking, and drinking all the hours in between; pranks, bar fights, cheating, travel, and prostitutes. . . . Equal parts fun and train wreck, this is a tale engineered to astonish. "Publishers Weekly"
Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it s not a day at Hunter S. Thompson s ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You d be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth. "Kirkus Reviews"
Shocking. "Times" (UK)
Beyond the shock factor, it s the humour in the book that stands out. . . . [LeFevre] flinches from nothing: the Herculean inappropriateness of trading-floor antics, the hookers, the cocaine. . . . This book is going to annoy and offend a lot of people, with good reason. It is a vicious, vacuous, caustic world he illuminates. But it would be a shameful waste if we didn t have LeFevre to find the humour in it all. "Euromoney""

A "New York Times" Bestseller
One of "Entertainment Weekly" s 10 Must-Reads of Summer
A "Time" magazine Ultimate Summer Reads Pick
An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Business/Leadership & Humor/Entertainment
Shocking and sordidand so much fun. "New York Daily News"
Shots are drunk, nether parts are exposed and rubbed against food, bread rolls are hurled, drugs are inhaled and prostitutes paid. It s Bertie Wooster s Drones Club via the darker corners of Edward St. Aubyn and Bret Easton Ellis. "Wall Street Journal"
LeFevre . . . sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging, investment bankers. "Entertainment Weekly"
If you thought the Wall Street culture portrayed in his tweets was bad, the one in LeFevre s new book "Straight to Hell" is worse. "CNN Money"
LeFevre s workplace anecdotes include tales of nastiness, sabotage, favoritism, sexism, racism, expense-account padding, and legally questionable collusion. "New Yorker"
Don't mistake this book for something it doesn't strive to be. The core themes of "Straight to Hell" survive attacks on its claims to credibility, and the book is not about boasting so much as entertainment. So should you read it? Maybe. It depends on your appetite for debauchery . . . "Straight to Hell" . . . offers a window into a deviant culture, and suggests the mechanisms by which it perpetuates itself, even in today s climate. "Newsweek"
There's no question that [LeFevre] knows his way around the business, and it's a dirty one. There's collusion, competition, nepotism, and a whole lot of reprehensible stuff going on in the business side, and it's fascinating. . . . A great read. "Business Insider"
LeFevre s stories are eye-opening. Also I m pretty sure he confesses to several felonies, and there s a price-fixing conference in a Hong Kong hotel room that I hope he ran by his lawyer. But you don t want to read about bond deals. You want drugs and hookers. LeFevre delivers them with overwhelming force . . . Teenage boys at Choate will want to be investment bankers after reading "Straight to Hell." "Bloomberg Businessweek"
LeFevre . . . has a clear talent for storytelling and writing. "Global Capital"
In some memoirs, the author tries to pull back the curtain to provide a glimpse into a particular time and place, but LeFevre attempts to rip the drapes right off. He gives a naked look at how business in the world of finance is conducted. LeFevre . . . doesn t shy away from witnessing and partaking in some of the seedier antics . . . You may not like LeFevre's tact, but he knows what he's talking about. CNBC
Informative and . . . highly entertaining . . . After all the wheeling and dealing, the drinking and snorting, the cheating and fucking, there is only John LeFevre, gleefully riding to hell and taking as many other sinners down with him as he can . . . LeFevre s contributed a classic to the genre. Anyone interested in global finance, credit markets or cocaine-fueled debauchery should give it a read. Reformed Broker
The Wall Street tell-all tome has been done before, but never quite like this. "Straight to Hell" is career suicide as literature; an interlude at a Filipino house of ill repute, all on its own, would be enough to render the author unemployable by any bank . . . If there were such a thing as witness protection for former bankers, John LeFevre would be eminently eligible. "Barron s"
Reads like a frat boy s fever dream of the highflying life: morning drinking, late-night drinking, and drinking all the hours in between; pranks, bar fights, cheating, travel, and prostitutes. . . . Equal parts fun and train wreck, this is a tale engineered to astonish. "Publishers Weekly"
Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it s not a day at Hunter S. Thompson s ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You d be forgiven for keeping your money under the mattress henceforth. "Kirkus Reviews"
Stories . . . that entertainingly and unapologetically flesh out the excesses of the banking industry. "Library Journal"
Full of shocking lawlessness, boyish antics, and win-at-all-costs schemes, this is the definitive take on the excessive world of finance. IndieBound
Shocking. "Times" (UK)
Beyond the shock factor, it s the humour in the book that stands out. . . . [LeFevre] flinches from nothing: the Herculean inappropriateness of trading-floor antics, the hookers, the cocaine. . . . This book is going to annoy and offend a lot of people, with good reason. It is a vicious, vacuous, caustic world he illuminates. But it would be a shameful waste if we didn t have LeFevre to find the humour in it all. "Euromoney"
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A New York Times Bestseller
One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Must-Reads of Summer
A Time magazine Ultimate Summer Reads Pick
An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Business/Leadership & Humor/Entertainment

"Shocking and sordid--and so much fun."--New York Daily News

"Shots are drunk, nether parts are exposed and rubbed against food, bread rolls are hurled, drugs are inhaled and prostitutes paid. It's Bertie Wooster's Drones Club via the darker corners of Edward St. Aubyn and Bret Easton Ellis."--Wall Street Journal

"LeFevre . . . sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging, investment bankers."--Entertainment Weekly

"If you thought the Wall Street culture portrayed in his tweets was bad, the one in LeFevre's new book Straight to Hell is worse."--CNN Money

"LeFevre's workplace anecdotes include tales of nastiness, sabotage, favoritism, sexism, racism, expense-account padding, and legally questionable collusion."--New Yorker

"Don't mistake this book for something it doesn't strive to be. The core themes of Straight to Hell survive attacks on its claims to credibility, and the book is not about boasting so much as entertainment. So should you read it? Maybe. It depends on your appetite for debauchery . . . Straight to Hell . . . offers a window into a deviant culture, and suggests the mechanisms by which it perpetuates itself, even in today's climate."--Newsweek

"There's no question that [LeFevre] knows his way around the business, and it's a dirty one. There's collusion, competition, nepotism, and a whole lot of reprehensible stuff going on in the business side, and it's fascinating. . . . A great read."--Business Insider

"LeFevre's stories are eye-opening. Also I'm pretty sure he confesses to several felonies, and there's a price-fixing conference in a Hong Kong hotel room that I hope he ran by his lawyer. But you don't want to read about bond deals. You want drugs and hookers. LeFevre delivers them with overwhelming force . . . Teenage boys at Choate will want to be investment bankers after reading Straight to Hell."--Bloomberg Businessweek

"LeFevre . . . has a clear talent for storytelling and writing."--Global Capital

"In some memoirs, the author tries to pull back the curtain to provide a glimpse into a particular time and place, but LeFevre attempts to rip the drapes right off. He gives a naked look at how business in the world of finance is conducted. LeFevre . . . doesn't shy away from witnessing and partaking in some of the seedier antics . . . You may not like LeFevre's tact, but he knows what he's talking about."--CNBC

"Informative and . . . highly entertaining . . . After all the wheeling and dealing, the drinking and snorting, the cheating and fucking, there is only John LeFevre, gleefully riding to hell and taking as many other sinners down with him as he can . . . LeFevre's contributed a classic to the genre. Anyone interested in global finance, credit markets or cocaine-fueled debauchery should give it a read."--Reformed Broker

"The Wall Street tell-all tome has been done before, but never quite like this. Straight to Hell is career suicide as literature; an interlude at a Filipino house of ill repute, all on its own, would be enough to render the author unemployable by any bank . . . If there were such a thing as witness protection for former bankers, John LeFevre would be eminently eligible."--Barron's

"Reads like a frat boy's fever dream of the highflying life: morning drinking, late-night drinking, and drinking all the hours in between; pranks, bar fights, cheating, travel, and prostitutes. . . . Equal parts fun and train wreck, this is a tale engineered to astonish."--Publishers Weekly

"Bad Behavior 101 . . . No, it's not a day at Hunter S. Thompson's ranch but . . . a day at an ordinary big ticket investment bank. . . . You'd be forgiven for keeping your money under ...

Bibliographic Details

Title: Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, ...
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New