Among my favourite parts of the book is Mr Mehta's early life in London in the swinging sixties as acallow young man, who arrives from India with a few shillings and bags of Indian tea.
As acallow bond-trader, fresh out of college, he participated in one of the greatest of them all, in Japan in 1986, when the yield on the ten-year benchmark Japanese government bond fell to 2.5%, the discount rate at the time.