Les 48 lois du pouvoir

Amoral, pitiless, ruthless and above all very instructive, this incisive work concentrates three thousand years of history of power in forty-eight clear and concise laws. It details the laws of power in their crudest essence, synthesizing the thought of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz and other great theorists and strategists. Some laws suggest caution (“Law #1: Never outshine your master”); others, secrecy (“Law No. 3: hide your intentions”); still others, a complete lack of mercy (“Law #15: Completely crush your enemy”).