Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals

LeFevre writes for Business Insider and has been interviewed by a plethora of news outlets—but readers are most likely to know him as creator of the @GSElevator Twitter account, a raunchy, irreverent stream of poor-judgement statements supposedly overheard in the Goldman Sachs elevator (though in fact most were not). LeFevre tracks his life in finance, from his start in Salomon Brothers’s fixed-income department, to a job offer at Goldman Sachs itself. His story reads like a frat boy’s fever dream of the high-flying life: morning drinking, late-night drinking, and drinking all the hours in between; pranks, bar fights, cheating, travel, and prostitutes. Peppered with a range of his tweets, which range from the thigh-slapping to the grimace-inducing, LeFevre’s story is orchestrated to prove that Wall Street turns its adherents into automatons focused on money above anything else. Equal parts fun and train wreck, this is a tale engineered to astonish anyone who wondered which fools were behind the crash of 2008; few could have pictured how absurd the truth really was. Agent: Byrd Leavell, Waxman Leavell Literary Agency. (July)