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Geraint Anderson (AKA 'Cityboy') is a former hippy who accidentally became a top-ranked stockbroker, a whistleblower, a bestselling author and, increasingly, a cautionary tale to any wannabe brokers out there.
Geraint entered the City in 1996 intending to work for a couple of years and make a fast buck. Instead he spent a decade cheating, lying and occasionally working until he headed up the second highest ranked equity team in the whole of London. During that time he watched high finance transform from a (vaguely) respectable profession into what he later described as “a Wild West casino run by human piranhas.”
Suffering a crisis of conscience, he began writing an anonymous newspaper column exposing the absurdities, egos and psychopathy endemic in high finance. After a near-fatal motorbike accident in 2007 he left investment banking and revealed himself as the column's author. His first book, Cityboy, became an international bestseller, selling over 400,000 copies and being translated into multiple languages.
Since escaping the Square Mile he has written two novels, produced an award-winning feature film, and spent an unhealthy amount of time studying status, power and the psychopaths who seek them.
His latest book, How to Con Friends and Manipulate People (out 2 July 2026), is in many ways a sequel to Cityboy - it is a darkly comic parody of a corporate/self-help book, written in the voice of a charming psychopath who explains how the only way to thrive in today's dog-eat-dog society, whether you work in a multi-national, politics or, indeed, the clergy, is by behaving like Hannibal Lecter.
Geraint lives in the countryside with his wife, two children and a lingering suspicion that the psychopaths have taken over the asylum.
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