"Ultimate Severance" - Language of Happiness and Quick-fix Demise Featured in New Satirical Big Business Novel
This new novel, "Ultimate Severance," is a sardonically humorous and spinspeak excursion through a genuine one-carat gold world of shifty board room finance, cozy accounting, fancy PR and high designer murder.
New York, NY (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) July 6, 2005 -- Flim-flam artists, imperial CEOs, Wall Street
piranhas, impatient mobsters, smarmy pols, five-star spinmeisters and assorted
mountebanks abound in "Ultimate Severance," a highly satirical and imaginative
new novel that provides a public relations guidebook to the reality of spin and
humbuggery in the 21st Century.
The novel by James Baar, author of
"Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution" and editor of "The
Spinspeak Letter" weblog www.spinspeak.com, tells how the spinspeak "language of
happiness" combined with a little inventive muscle can solve the diciest of
challenges including the exit of inconvenient corporate leaders who block
billion-dollar deals.
The time is a familiar future after the War on
Terror has been won by accidental launch of new "lite 'n kleen" nukes. A culture
of euphoria, ethical and social impairment and calls for numerous peace
dividends once again engulf America. Third Party Independent Lonnie Dee,
super-nova guitar player and TV talk-show host, is casually regnant in the White
House.
Here clearly is an environment of business opportunity for
financially-bleeding Trotter Pugg Mitchell, a world PR giant, and its dodgy
clients such as Old Masters Originals, a maker of "limited edition" reproduction
great art. And when the agency teams up with Mob Boss Joey Lasagna to abet dicey
corporate megamergers, they provide Wall Street raiders with a new quick-fix
ultimate severance package: an innovative Corporate Governance Program powered
by Trotter's specialty, the "language of happiness."
Cash flow gushes.
Money is well laundered. Spindocs, nurtured in the liberal-conservative culture
wars and trained in the magic of media manipulation, abound. Trotter President
Marvin Runnymede sets up a European "multi-use facility" in a 500-year old
chateau in Provence; plans to sell "Instant PR Agency" franchises to Third World
countries, and hires has-been "Greats" to promote dubious products and ventures.
But fortune's warming smile becomes a sardonic grin. So many stubborn
CEOs undergo fatal retirements in colorful circumstances around the world that a
powerful U.S. Senator decides to advance his presidential ambitions with the
usual TV-circus hearings. Well-cooked dishes of suspicion, buncombe and open
doubt are served to the media.
In the ensuing rush for strategic exits,
winners and losers fake out, promote and wound each other in surprising ways;
the faux rond wheels of justice grind and clank, and the "language of happiness"
covers all.
Baar has been "a student of spinspeak and its development"
since his early days as a UPI correspondent and editor in Washington and many
years as an international public relations executive for various major
corporations and agencies. He is the author of an earlier satirical novel, "The
Great Free Enterprise Gambit," four books on politics and military technology
including "Polaris!" and is completing a collection of short fiction, "The Real
Thing and Other Tales." He was graduated from Union College with a major in
philosophy.
About the book: Paperback: 336 pages; Publisher: AuthorHouse;
ISBN: 1420838474; LCCN: 2005902026; Cover price: $19.95 Available Now: Online
and local bookstores.
Contact:
Jim Baar
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