Belfort's autobiographical account was continued by Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, published in 2009.

Belfort tells his real-life story of creating Stratton Oakmont, a brokerage house engaged in pump and dump schemes with penny stocks.

A reviewer of Publishers Weekly stated "The book's main topic is the vast amount of drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort engaged in in order to survive.

The story is told mostly in dialogue, with allegedly contemporaneous mental asides by the author, reported verbatim.

Belfort displays dirty writing skills many basis points above his tricky ilk.