Unpolished Press Teethmarks on my chopsticks: a knucklehead goes to wall street, paperback/matthew connolly

What's it really like to work on Wall Street? Follow Matt Connolly as he moves from entry-level gofer to head trader to federal defendant.

Fresh out of college in 1987, Connolly stumbles onto a job as a clerk at JP Morgan.

Through hard work, dumb luck, and a watchful eye, he learns how to trade bonds and bahts, paper and punches.

After a decade Connolly is lured from JP Morgan to start a trading desk at Deutsche Bank.

He keeps climbing the rungs - and avoiding the shade.

But the late nights, globetrotting, and frat-house culture are taking a toll.

After twenty-one years Connolly feels old for Wall Street, and he calls it a career.

But not so fast.

Nine years later, he's a federal defendant in the LIBOR scandal.