Author: mikefreedman

A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consultingKing of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a “war” for dominance of a prestigious Houston consulting firm. On one side of the conflict is Brock Wharton, an old money … Wharton, an old money ex-jock whose delight in telling clients to downsize is matched only by his firm conviction that people like himself deserve to run the world. On the other is Mike Fink, a newly hired wily former soldier trying to…