After the Death of a Salesman
AUTHOR: Roger Rapoport
ISBN: 978-1-57143-062-5
In this hilarious sequel to bestselling I Should Have Stayed Home and I've Been Gone Far Too Long, business people tell of their greatest travel disasters from the emergency room to the paddy wagon. Read this book and you'll be happy you weren't with:
Oilman Jack Howard on the night half the Biafran Air Force was shot down. Madagascar cruise scout Marcia Wick as the world's largest cockroach was placed inside her luggage.
Engineer Joe Carr when everyone aboard his Frankfurt bound jet except the pilots realized they were landing in the wrong country.
Conductor Murray Gross as he woke up in his San Remo, Italy, hotel room to discover the staff had disappeared and all the doors were locked from the outside.
Bookseller Monica Holmes as she suggested stress reduction for her Manhattan cab driver who had just launched into a high-speed pursuit of an enemy limo driver.
Travelers on an Asian airline whose flight director believes pilots should do transcendental meditation before a downwind landing.
California investor Jack Branagh traveling through France on his wife's passport.
Sales Rep Teri Goldsmith as she arrived at Sears headquarters for a buyer appointment at 4:30 a.m.
Publisher Cynthia Frank watching her staff come down with ptomaine poisoning after dinner at a Chicago convention.
Spiceman Hank Kaestner as his drunk pilot took off for Belem, Brazil.
Mitch Weintraub as he attended a week-long company training workshop conducted in the bleachers at a high school football stadium.
Dedicated to the memory of Willie Loman, this tributed to corporate road warriors includes an inside and affectionate look at the book publishing business and offers an amusing view of everything they don't want you to know in business school.