When I was fourteen, fifteen years old, almost everybody in my class drank alcohol. We would get drunk. Alcohol is the polite part of what I could tell you about those years, so imagine the rest.
It's not because I was a bad kid. It is what happens when a country puts all of its effort into destroying a society, and mine did, deliberately, as policy, for years.
I have moved up three times in my life. Every single time it cost me a friend group, and every single time the bill came before the promotion. That is the whole of this book, and it is not a book about loyalty.