Devil's Casino

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil''s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman''s highly charged offices. What Ward uncovers is a much bigger story than Lehman losing at the risky game of collateralized debt obligations, swaps, and leverage. A can''t put it down page turner that opens the world of Wall Street to view unlike any book since Bonfire of the Vanities, except that The Devil''s Casino isn''t fiction. • Details what went on behind-the-scenes the weekend Lehman Brothers failed, as well as inside Lehman during the twenty years preceding it • Describes the feudal culture that proved both Lehman''s strength and its Achilles'' heel • Written by Vicky Ward, one of today''s most connected business and finance writers On Wall Street,