From the author from the blockbuster bestseller The Game: A shockingly personal, surprisingly relatable, brutally honest memoir, where the celebrated dating professional confronts the best challenge he has ever faced: monogamy and fidelity.

Neil Strauss became popular to millions around the world as the writer of THE OVERALL GAME, a funny and slyly instructive accounts of how he transformed himself from a scrawny, insecure nerd into the ultra-confident, ultra-successful “pickup artist” known as Style. The about THE REALITY: An Uncomfortable Book About Human relationships publication jump-started the international “seduction community,” and made Strauss children name-revered or notorious-among solitary men and women alike.

But the experience of writing The Game also transformed Strauss right into a man who could have what every guy wants: the ability to date-and/or have casual sex with-almost every female he met. The results were heady, to be certain. But they also conditioned him to view the world as some sort of continuous parade of females, sex, and opportunity-with intimacy and long-term dedication taking a back seat.

That is, until he met the girl who forced him to select between herself and the parade. The choice was not just difficult, it was wrenching. It pressured him deep into his previous, to confront not only the moral measurements of his pickup way of living, but also a wrenching secret in his child years that shaped the person that he became. It delivered him into extremes of behavior that exposed just how conflicted his life experienced become. And it produced him query everything he understood about himself, and about just how men and women live with and without one another.

He would never end up being the same once again.

Searingly honest, compulsively readable, this fresh book may have the same influence on you.