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The Ad Game
They say that sex sells. But when Max Cohen
takes a job in a Pittsburgh ad agency he learns
that sex kills too. Max is hired to work on the
account for a multinational steel corporation, but
when the client fires the agency, he finds himself
on the “Muffler King” account, promoting a local
chain of muffler and auto service centers. It isn’t
long before Max learns that Big Jim King, founder
and president of Muffler King, is a sexual voyeur
who uses the agency to source young subjects for
his sexual escapades. Max must carefully negotiate
big Jim’s Desires, the agency’s need to keep
Muffler King as a client, and the advances of Kitty
Wells, Muffler King’s marketing manager and Big
Jim’s duplicitous lover. The Ad Game is a both
rollicking look at the world of advertising and a
cautionary tale of uncontrolled appetites.
They say that sex sells. But when Max Cohen
takes a job in a Pittsburgh ad agency he learns
that sex kills too. Max is hired to work on the
account for a multinational steel corporation, but
when the client fires the agency, he finds himself
on the “Muffler King” account, promoting a local
chain of muffler and auto service centers. It isn’t
long before Max learns that Big Jim King, founder
and president of Muffler King, is a sexual voyeur
who uses the agency to source young subjects for
his sexual escapades. Max must carefully negotiate
big Jim’s Desires, the agency’s need to keep
Muffler King as a client, and the advances of Kitty
Wells, Muffler King’s marketing manager and Big
Jim’s duplicitous lover. The Ad Game is a both
rollicking look at the world of advertising and a
cautionary tale of uncontrolled appetites.
The Fashions of the Times
When Jacob Gold was ten years old, his grandfather
gave him this advice – “never lift a man so high that
he can piss in your face.” When Jacob accepts a
position at a prominent Pittsburgh law firm, he is
forced to apply his grandfather’s wisdom as he
negotiates the power plays and personal vendettas
of the firm’s attorneys. There is Theodore Rifkin, the
firm’s gray-maned managing partner who is willing
to do anything to keep his name on the firm’s door.
And Edward Blanton, the firm’s one-time golden boy
who has fallen from grace having been indicted for
his involvement in a phony real estate deal.
Hanging over the firm like a dark cloud is Blanton’s
failed attempt to stave off the hostile takeover of
one of firm’s oldest clients. When the British
corporate raider who masterminded the takeover
suddenly dies, Jacob, Rifkin and Blanton are drawn
in to the perfect storm that will change all of their
lives forever. The Fashions of the Times is a
chronicle of money and power and their meaning in
the myth that is the American dream.
When Jacob Gold was ten years old, his grandfather
gave him this advice – “never lift a man so high that
he can piss in your face.” When Jacob accepts a
position at a prominent Pittsburgh law firm, he is
forced to apply his grandfather’s wisdom as he
negotiates the power plays and personal vendettas
of the firm’s attorneys. There is Theodore Rifkin, the
firm’s gray-maned managing partner who is willing
to do anything to keep his name on the firm’s door.
And Edward Blanton, the firm’s one-time golden boy
who has fallen from grace having been indicted for
his involvement in a phony real estate deal.
Hanging over the firm like a dark cloud is Blanton’s
failed attempt to stave off the hostile takeover of
one of firm’s oldest clients. When the British
corporate raider who masterminded the takeover
suddenly dies, Jacob, Rifkin and Blanton are drawn
in to the perfect storm that will change all of their
lives forever. The Fashions of the Times is a
chronicle of money and power and their meaning in
the myth that is the American dream.
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