Turney Duff has worked on Wall Street since 1994, including at Morgan Stanley, the Galleon Group, Argus Partners, and J.L. Berkowitz. A graduate of Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, he has written and executive-produced two short movies and under his rap name "Cleveland D," was partly responsible for the infamous Galleon song, "On the Good Ship Galleon." He currently lives in Long Island City.
"Bracing...calls to mind books like Bright Lights, Big City by Jay
McInerney, and especially Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis...As
spectacle [the book] easily trumps both...Mr. Duff proves a fine
wordsmith: his prose is smooth, lean and rhythmic...An entertaining
and cautionary tale, well worth your time."
-Bryan Burrough, The New York Times "A heavyweight confessional
about the perils of a life spent chasing the almighty dollar...even
though the author's brutal honesty about his increasingly chaotic
personal life is commendable, it's really more his vivid portrait
of the everyday inner workings of life at a hedge fund that
fascinates...A fast-paced memoir of the easy-money hypercapitalist
dream-turned- nightmare."
--Kirkus Reviews "Looking for a Hollywood-worthy account of Wall
Street with lots of juicy details about the high life? Duff, a
former financial trader who climbed the ranks at several major
firms, provides a fascinating glimpse into the trader's life as he
narrates his journey from smalltown boyhood in Kennebunk, Maine, to
hitting the jackpot in Manhattan, to succumbing to the poisons of
success...[This] fast-paced tale will absorb readers...a wild
ride."
--Publishers Weekly "This is why I keep my money safe and sound
under the mattress. You could get high just reading this book.
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Wall Street
traders."
--James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Along
Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls "Turney Duff is a natural
storyteller, and his tale of how a naive kid from Maine traded in
L.L. Bean for Armani and got sucked into the seamy side of Wall
Street is almost impossible to put down. The book is by turns
hilarious, harrowing, maddening, and illuminating. After this
debut, the smart money will be on Duff."
--Bethany McLean, New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest
Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here "Turney Duff's The Buy
Side picks up where the Academy Award-winning film about systemic
corruption on Wall Street, 'Inside Job', leaves off. Duff, who at
one time was the promising rookie on the trading desk at troubled
hedge fund Galleon, gives us a front-row seat to the Street's dark
side - but the tale also features a personal story that will have
you cheering as Duff fights his way through a jungle of excess and
figures out what really matters. To all those who want to rule the
market not just during business hours but after hours, beware --
you may not have Duff's survival skills."
--Lawrence G. McDonald, New York Times bestselling author of A
Colossal Failure of Common Sense
"The Buy Side takes the reader on an extremely wild ride so
eloquently and honestly that we never want it to end. Cocaine wants
everything you love and everything that loves you. Turney Duff had
everything and nothing while trading billions of dollars on a
razor's edge. His book takes you from Wall Street to Skid Row to
the Thompson Hotel - and then, mercifully, back to sanity and
finding a place in the world. Hang on, The Buy Side is gonna move
you around, and there are no seatbelts to keep you from getting hit
hard."
--Brian O'Dea, author of High: Confessions of an International Drug
Smuggler
"The Buy Side is 'Wall Street' meets 'Breaking Bad' - except that
this book is fact not fiction. Turney Duff yields to temptation at
every turn, and the sheer volume of criminal behavior he saw, and
even participated in, is astonishing...If you want to see Wall
Street's seamy underbelly firsthand, read this book."
--Frank Partnoy, bestselling author of F.I.A.S.C.O and Infectious
Greed
"If you took Gordon Gekko, Bud Fox, a copy of Bright Lights, Big
City, and threw them in a blender with an ounce of cocaine, a
bottle of Patron Tequila, and your favorite teddy bear you'd have
yourself a Buy Side smoothie. Turney's my kind of guy; a madman
with heart. I couldn't put the book down."
--Colin Broderick, author of Orangutan "Does Wall Street make
people crazy or are crazy people simply attracted to Wall Street?
The Buy Side doesn't get us any closer to answering that question,
but along the way we get a look inside perhaps the most
ethically-challenged investment firm in recent memory, and a
harrowing journey through drug addiction and recovery. This is not
a musical comedy; at the end, you're just relieved that Duff is
alive."
--Jared Dillian, author of Street Freak: Money and Madness at
Lehman Brothers
"Turney Duff's The Buy Side is the perfect parable for Wall
Street's lost decade. Duff's account of his rise and fall has it
all, from a fast-paced coke-crazed trip through Manhattan nightlife
that conjures Bright Lights, Big City, to an eyewitness account of
insider trading and front running that reads like a federal
indictment. Broke but not broken, Duff ends up better than others
on Wall Street have--sober, chastened, and lucky to be alive after
the self-destructive excesses of easy money and empty
ambition."
-Guy Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Octopus
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