Read August 2003
An overrated book that fails to deliver on its promise. Guy Grand believes that every man can be bought, and illustrates this principle in a few excellent early chapters. At this point you imagine the book ramping up, wondering where this can possibly lead, and expecting a remarkable literary exploration of that at once repulsive and compelling notion, the price we can put on other people. But the book remains an account of a sequence of sophomoric pranks. Though the wit occasionally crackles, it's isn't enough to make it worth ploughing through the rest of this (brief) book.