John Rolfe grew up in the heart of Dixie. After stints at Virginia Tech and the University of Florida, he took a job doing broadcast research in New York City, convinced that "if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere." In 1993, after concluding that Frank Sinatra had sold him a bill of goods, John entered the Wharton School of Business, where he edited The Wharton Vulgarian. Following his sentence with DLJ, he was a principal with a private investment organization. Currently, John is a freelance man of sport and leisure, and is honing his panhandling skills for the next bear market.

Peter Troob grew up on the rough-and-tumble streets of Scarsdale, New York, and while in grade school starred in James and the Giant Peach. Peter attended Duke University, then worked for Kidder Peabody in New York City. In 1993 he entered the graduate program at the Harvard Business School, where he edited the humor section in the Harbus and wrote the "Kosher Korner" column. This made his mother proud. Peter is currently a partner with a private investment organization and is anticipating many happy years there.

作者是兩位年輕的華爾街投資銀行傢，他們以幽默的筆觸，迴顧瞭他們從走進華爾街到成為“標準的投資銀行傢”一路摸爬滾打、不堪迴首的曆程。當他們身臨其境纔知道：投資銀行傢不僅勞纍過度，而且歇斯底裏；每一人都像瘋狂運轉的賺錢機器，整天都在絞盡腦汁地、不擇手段地“從稻草中也要榨取齣黃金”。

書中揭露瞭投資銀行界看似盛大的“狂歡”背後的黑暗和醜陋，以及一手為華爾街粉飾浮華的人們的卑鄙和齷齪。