An updated edition of the classic motivational parable finds war veteran Bill Peck out-selling influential business owner Cappy Rick with a substandard product before embarking on a quest for an elusive blue vase.

In a world that moves as fast as finance does, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals moves as much as it rewards the bold ones. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success; plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts. And as Grove O’Rourke finds out, “Nothing obscures vulnerability like success. Nothing that is, except for friendships.” But this book isn’t about stocks and bonds—it’s about people. About Grove O’Rourke, top producer at the investment firm of Sachs, Kidder, and Carnegie, and about his best friend, Charlie Kelemen, whose spectacular murder is carried out in front of hundreds of horrified party-goers at the opening of the novel. It’s about Charlie’s widow, who comes to Grove for help after her husband’s death, even though she’s hiding a dark secret. And it’s about how money—vast sums of money—can cover up even the most glaring imper fections in relationships, and fool everyone. Well, almost everyone. With the ease of someone who has lived in the world of top producers, NorbVonnegut has crafted a sharp, dark thriller that will make you think—and then double-check your investments.

When his promising life and career are shattered by a monstrous crime committed by the CEO of his company, Ken Olson is devastated by threats and a cover-up that rally his determination to bring the CEO to justice in spite of formidable dangers.

Lacking the competitive instincts considered necessary to get ahead in his sales job, Jason Steadman meets a recently-hired Iraq War veteran who recruits him for the company softball team and offers him a job in corporate security.

A recently graduated investment banker nicknamed 'Mumbles' describes how he and his cohorts survive corporate purgatory, from repeated visits to the local coffee house and the covert filming of a despised colleague's sexual indiscretions to a shared effort to stand up to their bank's unethical minions. Original. A first novel.

When a frustrated middle manager has a chance encounter with a cockroach, he opts to spare the bug's life in exchange for the cockroach's coveted information, the 'Rules of the Roach,' which will help our hero survive like the fittest in today's corporate struggles.

Chris Faulkner, a wealthy commondities trader, uses his talent for instigating and taking advantage of revolutions and wars of liberation around the world in order to sell arms, intelligence, and power, but his growing riches come at a terrible cost. By the author of Altered Carbon. Original. 24,000 first printing.

Trapped in a job he hates, Adam Cassidy, a young employee at a high-tech corporation, is caught attempting to manipulate the system and is offered a choice--prison, or spying at the headquarters of their competitor, Trion Systems.

Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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As a powerful arms tycoon, Nick Fleming, the illigitimate son of a Pennsylvania coal baron, enjoys wealth and influence until the revenge of a bitter, insatiable, ambitious woman reaches out from beyond the grave