Books · Mr Valentas Bartkevicius
Diary of an (un) Successful Gangster.
It’s so difficult to be a gangster. Especially an unsuccessful one. A crime memoir where nothing goes to plan. Including the crime.
Two books. One road out. Book two is coming Kindle edition coming back soon.
Two books · Spain
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Two books.
One road out.
I wasn’t born a writer. I was born in Soviet Lithuania, ran a crew at 19, tiled bathrooms in London and ended up in a Spanish prison cell.
The first book is how I got there. The second is what I learned on the way out.
No gurus. No glamour. Just the truth, told with a straight face and a lot of bad decisions.
Book 01 · Out now
Diary of an
(un) Successful Gangster
Mr Valentas Bartkevicius
Paperback and hardcover on Amazon. Kindle edition coming back soon.
It’s so difficult to be a gangster. Especially an unsuccessful one.
A crime memoir where nothing goes to plan. Including the crime.
A boy grows up in a small Lithuanian town under Soviet occupation. Restless. Charming. ADHD, though nobody knows it yet. He teaches himself English from bootleg cartoons. By nineteen he is running a forty-man construction crew on gin, steroids and cocaine. Then the crash wipes him out.
London is meant to be a clean start. He tiles bathrooms, works up to site manager, and listens to thousands of audiobooks about money and philosophy. Then he drifts into cannabis grow houses in East London. The money is real. So is the farce.
Spain is meant to be another fresh start. Every “million-euro deal” shrinks to five bricks and a debt. A police raid ends with four months in a Spanish prison. Heroin addicts. Methadone queues. A cell full of ants. And a book called The Power of Now. That is where the joke finally turns into something else.
Book 01 · What you’ll get
The glamour,
stripped off.
- 01
A crime story with the glamour stripped off. Fast, profane and very self-mocking.
- 02
Three countries, three “fresh starts”, and every way a plan can go wrong.
- 03
The real cost: debt, fear, injuries and a life that kept falling apart.
- 04
A genuine change of heart in a prison cell. Not a sermon. Just what happened.
Kindle edition coming back soon.
It’s a redemption story. It just takes the scenic route, through every bad decision on the map.
Book 02 · Coming soon
Think and Grow Rich
The Gangster’s Guide to the Cosmic Heist of Now
How to Rob the Universe and Get Away with It.
The first book ended in a prison cell with The Power of Now. This one starts there.
Book 02 · Still being written
The guinea pig
with scars.
Coming soon. No pre-order yet. Cover not final.
Thoughts become things. I have tested that line for twenty years. On a sunbed. On a flat. On a broken Mini Cooper. In a Spanish prison cell, reading The Power of Now in Spanish, five times, until it got into my bones.
I have read and listened to thousands of books on mindset and manifestation. In this book I take the big teachers, from Napoleon Hill to Eckhart Tolle, and put them into gangster English. Seven rules: Desire, Frequency, the Subconscious, Action, the Mastermind, Persistence and Faith. Then I show you my field tests, the wins and the floods. Then the daily practice that keeps me on track.
I’m not a guru. In my own words, I’m “the guinea pig with scars, coffee, and big plans.” The book keeps going into my life now, this year, while it’s still happening.
Book 02 · What you’ll get
Seven rules.
Real field tests.
- 01
The big mindset classics, explained in plain street language.
- 02
Seven rules for turning a thought into a result.
- 03
Real field tests from my own life. Including the ones that went sideways.
- 04
A simple morning and night routine you can actually use.
- 05
One idea under all of it: the universe doesn’t tip for dreamers. It pays the ones who sweat.
The seven rules
- 01Desire
- 02Frequency
- 03The Subconscious
- 04Action
- 05The Mastermind
- 06Persistence
- 07Faith
Then the field tests. The wins and the floods.
About the author
Mr Valentas
Bartkevicius.
I grew up in Soviet Lithuania. At 19 I was a crew boss. In London I was a tiler, then a site manager. Since 2019 I live in Spain, in the Alicante region.
I went to prison. I got clean. I turned my life around.
I have ADHD and English is my second language. I write the way I talk. Short, straight and usually at my own expense.
Today I’m building Impressive Life.
Where to buy · Formats
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| Edition | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Diary · Paperback | Available | Amazon → |
| Diary · Hardcover | Available | Amazon → |
| Diary · Kindle | Coming back soon | — |
| Think and Grow Rich: The Gangster’s Guide to the Cosmic Heist of Now | Coming soon | — |
Full titles: Diary of an (un) Successful Gangster · Think and Grow Rich: The Gangster’s Guide to the Cosmic Heist of Now: How to Rob the Universe and Get Away with It.
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Out now in paperback and hardcover. Kindle coming back soon.
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