John LeFevre has enjoyed a distinguished career in international finance. He joined Salomon Brothers immediately out of college, and worked for Citigroup in New York, London, and Hong Kong. In 2010 he was hired by Goldman Sachs to be head of Debt Syndicate in Asia, a position that he eventually did not take due to a contractual issue. He has written for Business Insider and has been interviewed about @GSElevator by the New York Times, CNN, and other outlets.
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
A Publishers Weekly Notable Debut and Bestseller (#18) "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 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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