The Most Entertaining Book You"ll Read This Year: Commercial Break!
The hottest show on television currently is Mad Men. Not only are audiences enthralled by the complex characters and the captivating storyline - they love the series' inside look at the intriguing, surprise-filled and sometimes disingenuous world of advertising. The crazy creative types, the back-stabbing and politics, the unreasonably demanding clients...
Well if you like Mad Men, or even if you don't watch, but have been intrigued, now there's a great new novel that gives readers that same entree to the advertising world, but with an up to date setting, a suspenseful plot and a ton of laughs along the way to a big surprise ending.
COMMERCIAL BREAK, by Keith Harmeyer, is the tale of Adam Glassman, a burned out ad man who gives new meaning to the word "creativity" when he concocts what may be the biggest idea of his career - a way to fleece his contemptible clients out of millions and make a fresh start.
Those clients are as crazy as the scheme. There's Marty "Sven" Martini, president of Black Ice Lager (the premium brew from the land of black ice...bottled in Brooklyn); Disco Danny Driver, who markets America's most DyNamite exercise video, DannyDriver's DyNamic DiscoRobics WorkOut; Angela Vasquez, the cynical, man-hating CEO of SheSheSports.com; Harve Klimt, VP Marketing of Clyde's Closet discount stores (who has furnished two homes with funds skimmed from his company's marketing budget); Roland Hoskins, the penny-pinching, third generation owner of Hoskins Home Furnishings; and Willy Pruitt, the daiquiri-sucking beach bum-turned-businessman that heads up Pruitt Sandals.
A string of unforeseen obstacles makes the set up even more challenging than Adam imagined. There is Harry Steck, an unsavory private investigator, employed by a disgruntled former employee to dig up dirt on Adam...with life-threatening consequences. And Samantha Winningham, the attractive young art director whose affair with Adam could cause the whole plan to crumble, and land Adam in prison.
Eventually, the pieces are in place. All that is left on Super Bowl Sunday are a group of eager clients, a very nervous would-be con man, and one burning question: will he get away with it?
COMMERCIAL BREAK is MAD MEN meets THE PRODUCERS - unpredictable, fast-paced, and at times laugh-out-loud hilarious, with the sort of innovative storyline and rich characters enjoyed by readers of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.
COMMERCIAL BREAK is highly recommended reading. It just may be the most enjoyable novel you read this year. Give it a look!
Well if you like Mad Men, or even if you don't watch, but have been intrigued, now there's a great new novel that gives readers that same entree to the advertising world, but with an up to date setting, a suspenseful plot and a ton of laughs along the way to a big surprise ending.
COMMERCIAL BREAK, by Keith Harmeyer, is the tale of Adam Glassman, a burned out ad man who gives new meaning to the word "creativity" when he concocts what may be the biggest idea of his career - a way to fleece his contemptible clients out of millions and make a fresh start.
Those clients are as crazy as the scheme. There's Marty "Sven" Martini, president of Black Ice Lager (the premium brew from the land of black ice...bottled in Brooklyn); Disco Danny Driver, who markets America's most DyNamite exercise video, DannyDriver's DyNamic DiscoRobics WorkOut; Angela Vasquez, the cynical, man-hating CEO of SheSheSports.com; Harve Klimt, VP Marketing of Clyde's Closet discount stores (who has furnished two homes with funds skimmed from his company's marketing budget); Roland Hoskins, the penny-pinching, third generation owner of Hoskins Home Furnishings; and Willy Pruitt, the daiquiri-sucking beach bum-turned-businessman that heads up Pruitt Sandals.
A string of unforeseen obstacles makes the set up even more challenging than Adam imagined. There is Harry Steck, an unsavory private investigator, employed by a disgruntled former employee to dig up dirt on Adam...with life-threatening consequences. And Samantha Winningham, the attractive young art director whose affair with Adam could cause the whole plan to crumble, and land Adam in prison.
Eventually, the pieces are in place. All that is left on Super Bowl Sunday are a group of eager clients, a very nervous would-be con man, and one burning question: will he get away with it?
COMMERCIAL BREAK is MAD MEN meets THE PRODUCERS - unpredictable, fast-paced, and at times laugh-out-loud hilarious, with the sort of innovative storyline and rich characters enjoyed by readers of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.
COMMERCIAL BREAK is highly recommended reading. It just may be the most enjoyable novel you read this year. Give it a look!
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