The international bestseller is there anything more cut-throat than global politics? wherever you turn – Europe, Russia, China, Korea, Syria, the middle East – we are living in a time of global geopolitical power plays. Once an insider to this closed world, Pedro banos reveals that however it might be smooth over by the PR of political diplomacy, the world of geopolitics is one of war and conflict by strategic means, where countries have sought dominion and power over their rivals since the dawn of time. Banos presents this high-stakes game as a series of 22 universal rules is a practical set of rules for engagement that can be enjoyed by anyone. Written with the philosophic, aphoristic timelessness of a von Bulow, sun Tzu or Machiavelli, banos has created an utterly gripping manual on the secrets of how strategic power really works.

Pedro Baños is a colonel in the Spanish Army and was formerly the Chief of Counter-Intelligence and Security for the European Army Corps. He is one of Europe’s top specialists in geopolitics, terrorism and intelligence.