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How to Con Friends and Manipulate People

The Subtle Art of Being a Total Psychopath
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“The Art of War for the Tik Tok generation” – Donald J Tump (56, Milton Keynes) Geraint Anderson is a genuine phenomenon. Ever since he wrote his bestselling memoir Cityboy, which followed Geraint as he embarked upon a wildly successful (and not at all fraudulent) investment... Read More
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A sharply funny and tongue-in-cheek guide on how to find ‘success’ by embracing your inner psychopath.

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“The Art of War for the Tik Tok generation” – Donald J Tump (56, Milton Keynes)

Geraint Anderson is a genuine phenomenon.

Ever since he wrote his bestselling memoir Cityboy, which followed Geraint as he embarked upon a wildly successful (and not at all fraudulent) investment banking career, publishers have been begging him to reveal how he climbed the corporate ladder with such ease. Did he achieve his remarkable brilliance through diligence and hard work?

No, he did so because he is a psychopath.

In this remarkable book, Geraint explains that the world is rapidly becoming such a brutal place that soon it will only be psychopaths who succeed - whether the aim is to become top dog in business, politics or, indeed, the clergy. Within these pages, you will quickly learn how to think like a stone-cold killer and, in so doing, become the very worst version of yourself.

This is the first book of its kind – a realistic manual that explains exactly how to be a winner in today’s dog-eat-dog capitalist world. You may not like a lot of what Geraint has to say, but that’s only because it’s radical, disturbingly honest and usually involves a surgical scalpel.

So, stop behaving like a limp-wristed fruit picker and, instead, buy this book. Become what you were always destined to be: a warrior, a winner… a psychopath!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781835984567

Publisher: Canelo

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: August Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Geraint Anderson is a former City of London analyst, newspaper columnist and author, best known for his ‘City Boy’ column in The London Paper and his follow-up ‘memoir’ Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile, which sold almost 200,000 copies and spent weeks on the Sunday Times bestsellers list.

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