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Inside man

NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.
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Liar's poker

rising through the wreckage on Wall Street
2010
A biography of Wall Street bond trader Michael Lewis that provides a perspective on the 1980s era. Describes Lewis's rise from trainee at Salomon Brothers to a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars in bonds with a phone call. Examines the intensity of life on the trading floor.

Downtick

1998

Buffalo gal

a memoir
2008
A memoir in which the author discusses growing up in Buffalo, New York in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming the youngest person to have a seat on the American Stock Exchange, and a millionaire by the age of twenty-one.
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