The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists - Hardcover

"an engaging and hilarious read...empowering."--Pop Matters

"Compulsive reading."--Irish Times

"Entertaining."--Newsweek

"The book everyone's talking about."--GQ

"Neil Strauss has it all figured out. When it comes to the mating dance, Strauss knows how to lead."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Touching and witty, four stars."--Time Out New York

"Strauss is a superstar...a stunningly explicit book."--The Times (London)

"Strauss is either a sex god or the anti-Christ, depending on your perspective."--The Daily Express

"The funniest book I have read all year."--Tony Parsons

"To call it a book would be an understatement. I prefer to think of it as the Bible."--The Sunday Mercury

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is "not" fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year -- guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange -- and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince -- to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year.