Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755346189

Price: £10.99

ON SALE: 2nd February 2009

Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General

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CITYBOY is Geraint Anderson’s bestselling exposé of life in the City of London.

In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London’s financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile’s code of silence, revealing tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky underbelly at the heart of life in the City. Drawing on his experience as a young analyst in a major investment bank, the six-figure bonuses, monstrous egos, and the everyday culture of verbal and substance abuse that fuels the world’s money markets are brutally exposed as Cityboy describes his ascent up the hierarchy of this intensely competitive and morally dubious industry, and how it almost cost him his sanity.

Reviews

As a primer to back-stabbing, bullying, drug-taking, gambling, boozing, lap-dancing, this takes some beating ... a necessary and valuable book
<i>Evening Standard</i>
Engaging, timely and important
<i>Times</i>
His timing couldn't be better ... London's pernicious financial world reveals itself in all its ugliness
<i>Daily Mail</i>
'Excruciatingly candid'
<i>Sunday Times</i>