‘The high stakes gambler with a winning hand of famous friends..a remarkable life' DailyExpress‘Very entertaining... Read all about it’ Tatler‘Gripping’ Mail Online‘A very good and fun read’ The Spectator‘The anecdotes in this memoir from Greco-British businessman and socialite Emmanuel ‘Manoli’ Olympitis span everywhere from Annabel’s to the Bahamas’ Selected by Spear’s as one of the best books out now, Autumn 2020'High stakes, high jinks and high society’The Gentleman’s Journal‘It is certainly a blistering celebrity romp, amply fuelled with lashings of anecdotes like drinking whisky with Prince Philip, turning down a date with Barbara Streisand and meeting Robert de Niro and Madonna in a New York restaurant’Wiltshire Life‘Emmanuel Olympitis graced the world of fencing in the sixties and seventies...This book is fun. Throughout its pages the author spotlights a world that few of us have ever seen. It romps through the hedonistic ‘Swinging Sixties’ into the Thatcher and Cameron years with a light engaging touch.’ The SwordMarked Cards is a livewire account of youthful financier Emmanuel 'Manoli' Olympitis' rapid ascent to the top, recalling three decades of life in the fast lane. All work and no play makes Jack a dull lad, but all work and all play makes for a delicious memoir, as this sparkling trove of memories reminds us. From the Swinging Sixties into the 1990s, the author details his romp through the changing social and business world, which was constantly written up, despite his best efforts, in society gossip columns: a glittering thirty years spent in high-end hangouts all around the world. His adventures were a permanent feature in Nigel Dempster’s column and covered by 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, sharing anecdotes from endless rounds of parties, high-stakes poker games and a string of glamorous girlfriends.

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