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Cityboy

Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

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Cityboy

By: Geraint Anderson
Narrated by: Tom Hollander
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About this listen

 A no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London's financial heartland.

'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.

©2008 Geraint Anderson (P)2009 Hachette Digital Money Funny Witty Banking England

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Shame the narration was very rushed and no doubt polished off in Hollanders lunch break but a good story and insight into the 90’s onwards Square Mile stockbroker ethos and lifestyle

Good fun and great insight

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For some reason I was not expecting much from this audio book, but almost immediately I was drawn into this real life story of a city boy!

The story is punchy and a little edgy and a joy to listen to, the voice of the reader suits the text perfectly.

It was genuinely the best book I have listened to for a long time and was disappointed when it finished!

Quality!

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Amazon story, I would recommended to everyone who want to listen and laugh at the city boys.

Great audio to listen

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Clearly not a book to take too seriously, this is an amusing, irreverent expose of a certain kind of city worker who has been promoted to his level of incompetence, is ridiculously overpaid and lives a shallow, meaningless life. The humour is in the stereotyping, both of the laddish male protaganist and of his views of the world around him. Personally, I found it funny and many of the vignettes of city life and financial excesses did ring true.

Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

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Quite a different world for this Cityboy. Not everybodys cup of tea and chill out but certainly a peep into another busy world, albeit so very different.

Not for a quick relaxing listen!

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