The Trading Game

NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An unforgettable story of greed financial madness and moral decay Rory Stewart Hilarious shocking and deeply sad often in the same sentence Sunday Times The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass Irvine WelshAn outrageous white knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open If you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there left open what would you do Would you wait around Ever since he was a kid kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf s skyscrapers Gary wanted something better Something a whole lot bigger Then he won a competition run by a bank The Trading Game The prize a golden ticket to a new life as the youngest trader in the whole city A place where you could make more money than you d ever imagined Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths yet they start to feel like family Where soon you re the bank s most profitable trader dealing in nearly a trillion dollars A day Where you dream of numbers in your sleep and then stop sleeping at all But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing