The Wolf of Wall Street is the raw and humorous autobiography of Jordan Belfort, a former stockbroker who rose to incredible wealth in the 1990s through his firm, Stratton Oakmont. The book details his meteoric rise as a ‘stock-market tycoon’ and his subsequent chaotic downward spiral fueled by drugs and extreme hedonism. It is a cautionary tale of greed and corruption that eventually led to his arrest by the FBI and his ultimate downfall.