King of the Mississippi
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780525573784
Copyright date: 2019
Description: King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of a prestigious Houston consulting firm. On one side of the conflict is Brock Wharton, an old money ex-jock whose delight in telling clients to downsize is matched only by his firm conviction that people like himself deserve to run the world. On the other is Mike Fink, a newly hired wily former soldier trying to ride his veteran status to the top of a corporate world that lionizes "the troops" without truly understanding them.