Dastardly Deeds--and Redemption--in a Small Town... (Thriller REVIEW)
It’s a good thing that folks in the marketing biz know a little something about “selling it”, because if there’s one thing less likely to elicit enthusiasm from me than the prospect of reading a thriller about marketing, it’d be reading a thriller about a funeral home… both of which, it just so happens, form the basis of marketing pro Joe Pulizzi’s first unputdownable outing as a novelist, The Will to Die . (In case you missed it, let’s pause here for a dramatic moment whilst I reiterate: unputdownable . Like, really, truly .) _______________ On paper, Will Pollitt may be a big-city (well, Cleveland, Ohio, so bigg ish , anyway) marketing whiz, but the reality of his life is anything but rosy. Still sore over a messy divorce from the love of his life, Will desperately needs to land a new deal in order to save his tiny firm and continue sending his daughter to university… so that his ex-wife or daughter never find out how close to bankruptcy he actually is. When ...