Lehman Trader Recalls Suicide, ‘Pornographic’ Portfolio: Books

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One grim night before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. imploded, trader Jared Dillian drank himself into a frenzied scream, hugged his cat and downed half a bottle of the only drug on hand: Tylenol PM, he says.

“I could not even kill myself properly,” he rages in his disturbingly candid memoir, “Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers.”