HOW TO WIN AT LIFE BY CHEATING AT EVERYTHING

Written by Mark Perez

Produced by Darkhorse Books and Distributed by Penguin Random House

Available on AMAZON now!

Perez regales with tails of his amazing life and bizarre upbringing, with a father who showed him how to commit every scam, con, and swindle known to man. So, the book is two things: 1. It’s a story about an estranged father and the son he left behind. About their complex and broken relationship.  And 2. It’s a book that teaches you, step by step, how to steal from old people and the handicapped.

Part memoir, part graphic novel, part Con-Man-How-To, HOW TO WIN AT LIFE BY CHEATING AT EVERYTHING works well as both a guidebook for life. And also, the kinda thing you can flip through while you’re dropping a deuce.

It is Perez’s first book. And if you don't buy it, his last.

Learn How to Win by Cheating in This Hollywood Screenwriter's New Illustrated How-To Guide

LIZ OHANESIAN | AUGUST 5, 2017 | 10:23AM

In How to Win at Life by Cheating at Everything ($14.99, Dark Horse), the debut novel from screenwriter Mark Perez, a grifter known to readers by the alias John Dough recounts his life and scams in how-to form. Dough is a master bullshitter who got in on the con game when he was a child and works his way up to the ultimate job: scamming an entire town. He details his plans, how to work the system and how to get people to believe that he is the "town savior." It's hard to read this book and not think about current U.S. politics. However, that wasn't Perez's inspiration. 

Perez says that the muse for this tale was his dad, who came to the United States from Cuba at the age of 13. "He would always teach me to cheat," Perez explains by phone from his home in Sherman Oaks. "I don't mean that we were grifters and we were stealing, but if you could lie to your boss to get more miles on your car, if you could lie about this to get that, if you could do stuff to give yourself an edge in ways, my dad didn't consider that cheating, he considered that winning. That's what winners do."