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An unforgettable first novel about Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Consisting entirely of staff emails, the novel spends a fortnight in the company of a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood. The novel is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-arsed bitchiness: that is to say, everyday office politics. There is also some work to be done—the quest for advertising's Eldorado, the Coca-Cola account. Sleazy, scurrilous and scabrously funny, it also contains a first-class joke about the Pope and sound advice on the maintenance of industrial carpet tiles.