Hardcover, 400 pages
Published Oct. 30, 2015 by Cemetery Dance Pubns.
CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices.
But there's something strange about the firm they hire--more specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project: Mr. Patoff, tall and thin and wearing a bow tie, and with an odd smile that never quite reaches his eyes.
Well written but I found the over the top sexual comments not only disgusting but completely unnecessary. The premise was interesting and for someone going though corporate shakeups it hit close to home. I essentially read it on one day which says something about the writing style but I also found it disgusting with a non satisfying ending.
In the same vein as his previous novels The Store, The Policy, The Resort etc Bentley Little paints a horrifying (yet satirically comedic) picture of big business as an evil entity. While I did mostly enjoy this story, as a long time fan of the author I can't help but notice I'm starting to feel that he is basically writing the same book over and over. He has a formula and he sticks to it. Because of that, if you have read his previous works you may find this one a bit predictable.
