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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/mike-freedman/king_of_the_mississippi.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/mike-freedman/king_of_the_mississippi_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="King of the Mississippi" alt ="King of the Mississippi"/></a><br//>A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting<br>King 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 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 ride his veteran status to the top of a corporate world that lionizes "the troops" without truly understanding them. Brock and Mike are mortal enemies on sight, bitterly divided not only by background and class but by diametrically opposed (yet equally delusional) visions of what it means to "be a man." And as their escalating conflict spirals out of control, it will...]]></description>
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