Publisher, HighBridge Audio (September 2001)

Robert Greene's previous bestseller, The 48 Laws of Power, distilled 3,000 years of scheming into a guide People praised as "beguiling... literate... fascinating" and Kirkus denounced as "an anti-Book of Virtures."

In Art of Seduction, Greene returns with a new instruction book on the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power—because seduction isn't really about sex. It's about manipulating other people's greatest weakness: their desire for pleasure.

Synthesizing the work of thinkers including Freud, Diderot, Nietzsche, and Einstein, reporting the enticing strategies of characters throughout history, The Art of Seduction is a comprehensive guide to getting what we want—any way we can. Controversial but never dull, timeless and up-to-date, it's destined to be Greene's next bestseller.

About the Authors: ROBERT GREENE is the best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power and a self-described "history nut." He was inspired to learn more about power while working at an art school in Venice. The "behind the arras stabbing antics" he witnessed there were, he realized, no different from those that had been played out throughout history.

JOOST ELFFERS is the packager of the best-selling Secret Language books and Play with Your Food. Both men live in New York.