How to succeed at business spying by trying;: A novel about industrial espionage [Unknown Binding]

Shepherd Mead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1968

From the Author of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

Spy, counterspy, Casanova, and technological Machiavelli, Mark Price is an agent for big business's latest headache, Industrial Espionage. His exploits as he goes about exposing a monstrous conspiracy against the industrial heart of America are at once wild, hilarious, and deadly serious. Along the way he tangles with an assortment of zany characters, including a trio of engagingly odd and highly sexed charmers and a patriarchal embodiment of the American Dream, before his ingenious sleuthing culminates in a shattering climax in the best comic tradition of the Marx brothers.

How to Succeed at Business Spying by Trying is bugged with all the newest electronic hardware and people who have no scruples about using them. Mead brings to this novel all the wit, humor, and know-how that made his earlier expose of corporate skulduggery, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, one of the biggest money makers of all the books on business ever written.

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About the Author

Shepherd Mead, author of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying that inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical of the same name, was one of those men dogged by success.

Born in St. Louis in April 1914, Mead attended the Univ. of Washington. Upon graduation he went to New York to practice being an intellectual and ended up as a junior executive and then a vice-president of Benton & Bowles. His biting attacks against society only gained him greater fame and success, and he finally resigned and fled to Europe with his wife and three children in 1957. He spent a year in Geneva and then went to England in 1958.

Mead died in London, England at his flat overlooking the beautiful Hurlingham Club by the Thames on August 15, 1994 at the age of 80.

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 255 pages
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster (1968)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0006BUHEM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,040,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Shepherd Mead (1914-1994) was one of those men dogged by success. At 22, the quiet Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University left his native St. Louis for New York and joined the mail room of a large corporation - as does J. Pierrepont Finch, the leading character (who is by now a sort of folk hero) in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

Like Finch, Mead rose to the top. It was, in fact, while he was a Vice President, inhabiting a huge office with four windows, that he wrote "How to Succeed in Business." It remained 12 weeks on the best seller list and was followed by several novels on big business, one of which, "The Admen," sold more than two million copies.

In 1957, Shepherd Mead vacationed with his family in Europe and decided to remain there to live. Meanwhile, back home, Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser were concocting from "How to Succeed in Business" the Broadway musical comedy success that went on to win the Pulitzer, the New York Drama Critics, and almost every other known prize.

Like J. Pierrepont Finch, Mead's caricature of a business man, Mead became a sort of folk hero in his own right - but a folk hero with a message.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended - you must check it out!!! It's a fun and very humorous read., February 22, 2011

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This review is from: How to Succeed at Business Spying by Trying: A Novel About Industrial Espionage (Kindle Edition)

I highly recommend checking this e-book out. It's a fun and very humorous read. The author who wrote it is also the author of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" that inspired the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name.