{"product_id":"9780241688274","title":"The Trading Game : A Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*NO.1 \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad - often in the same sentence' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Wolf of Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e with a moral compass' Irvine Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen 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 \u003ci\u003eday\u003c\/i\u003e. Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer - and, as the economy starts slipping off a precipice, your own sanity starts slipping with it? You want to stop, but you can't. Because \u003ci\u003enobody ever leaves\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWould you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber 1 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, March 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45469503193309,"sku":"9780241688274","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9780241688274.jpg?v=1720170650","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780241688274","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}