The book, "Why I left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story," promised to elaborate on his essay, which decried Goldman for deceiving clients in order to earn the firm as much money as possible, even when it meant betting against a client's interest.

“I knew in my heart there was simply something deeply wrong with the way people were behaving, in the way they didn’t care about the repercussions, in the way they saw their clients as adversaries,” Smith wrote in his book, according to a New York Times preview. Speaking to "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, the 33-year-old former equity derivatives salesman said that naive clients were considered a "golden prize": “[The] quickest way to make money on Wall Street," he said, "is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.”

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