Marked Cards

by Emmanuel Olympitis (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2020

  $3.46

  This raucous memoir recounting one man's ascent to the pinnacle of international business features a career's worth of thrilling anecdotes from life in the fast lane. Emmanuel 'Manoli' Olympitis is an eminent British business leader with a track record of returning a broad range of banking and financial services groups to profitability, making him a highly sought-after member of several company boards. At the age of twenty-eight, he became the youngest director of a merchant bank - Bankers Trust International Ltd - in the City of London. He was also a member of the British Olympic Fencing Squad in the 1968 Mexican Olympics. Manoli About Town recalls his life and adventures, from the Swinging Sixties until the nineteen-nineties, during his rise to success in the changing social and business worlds of Europe and the United States - a glittering thirty years spent in high-end hangouts all around the world and constantly written up in society gossip columns. A permanent feature in Nigel Dempster's column, he has also been a regular subject for William Hickey of the Daily Express, Suzy Knickerbocker in the New York Post and W magazine and Liz Smith in the New York Daily News. Manoli recalls his life's twists and turns, naming names and sharing anecdotes of a glamorous life of parties, high-stakes poker games and a string of glamorous girlfriends. All work and no play makes Jack a dull lad, but as this sparkling account reminds the reader on nearly every page, all work and all play makes for a delicious memoir.