Book description
Who is Cityboy? He's every brash, suited, FT-carrying idiot who ever
pushed past you on the tube. He's the egotistical buffoon who loudly
brags about how much cash he's made on the market at otherwise pleasant
dinner parties. He's the greedy, ruthless wanker whose actions are
helping turn this world into the shit-hole it's rapidly becoming. For
one period in my life, he was me.' 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 in his own inimitable style,
revealing explosive secrets, 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 is 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.
