Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile - Geraint Anderson

Cityboy is the 'fictional' story of a young Steve Jones who by chance gets a job as an analyst for one of the City's banks in London and explains how this one time long haired, peace loving hippy gets caught up in the 'Cityboy way of life' of making huges amounts of money, the whole partying lifestyle - including taking copious amounts of Class A drugs and lots of drinking! Not to forget the fast cars and gold diggers! Cityboy is written by Geraint Anderson who says at the very start that the book has purely been fictionalised but it's pretty clear that he is referring throughout to his own experiences although names of the various banks and people he ...  Read the complete review

massive error alert: he mentions going to Glastonbury festival in 2001 (definitely key to the plot as this was when he ran into his soon-to-be boss before he started a new job on 10 Sept 2001, the day before the WTC attacks) however, there WAS NO Glastonbury festival in 2001 (one of its years off every five). explain that one!

I wasn't familiar with Geraint Anderson's anonymous 'Cityboy' column from thelondonpaper. But when someone at work recommended a book about an amazingly successful, stinking-rich analyst at a City bank who gave it all up for, well, nothing, I couldn't help but be a little intrigued. What on earth would make someone renounce such a stellar career? What was so awful about the world of investment banking that he would feel the need to write a no-holds-barred exposé of it? What really goes on at investment banks? I can't deny that I was driven by a mixture of schadenfreude and the prospect of salacious tales about fast cars, huge bonuses and easy women... and I wasn't ...  Read the complete review