Yet Mr Wolfensohn's memoir is plodding and for the most part bloodless; more like the reminiscences of an old-school London merchant banker than a freewheeling charmer.The first half of the book charts Mr Wolfensohn's rise from a financially insecure youth in Australia to the upper echelons of global finance, in London and then New York.
Suits is a gripping read, especially if you're of multi-cultural heritage or interested in why there are so few women in the upper echelons of high finance.
"I got in through the back door," said Bodek, describing his ascendancy to the upper echelons of global finance.
Barrack and Trump developed a close friendship through three decades of raising children, weathering divorces and maneuvering among the top echelons of global finance and real estate.
Geithner is at heart a grifter, a petty con artist with the right manners and breeding to lie at the top echelons of American finance at a moment when the government and financial services industry needed someone to be the face of their multi-trillion dollar three card monte.
During December 2008, while still in the process of drafting, Loeb said that he had been riveted by the Bernie Madoff headlines and showed interest in referencing him in the film, noting: "the thing that is so crazy about this story is that Ponzi schemes seem to be the simplest low-class scam," and "but this was carried out in the highest echelon of high finance.
Tangled conspiracies at the highest echelons of power and finance are the lifeblood of thrillers, but this one — energy company executives ruthlessly conspiring to bury evidence of their toxic ill deeds — feels tonally out of date.
While there are now a number of politicians and journalists of Turkish background, very few have managed to gain a place in the upper echelons of industry or finance.
Overwhelmingly, men were selected for upper-echelon jobs, such director of finance and manager of research and development, whereas women were consigned to lower-paying female jobs like receptionist.
