The Rats & MBA & Time of Lies by Douglas Board - Book Blitz
The Rats: A White House Satire
Ros March,
disabled lesbian mum and former Royal Marine, has just moved to Turnberry on
Scotland's west coast. Her cottage overlooks one of the world's most famous
golf courses - Trump Turnberry - as well as the scenic bird sanctuary Ailsa
Craig. But idylls deceive. In truth Ailsa was once overrun by rats, who were
exterminated at the end of the twentieth century, and Ros's landlord turns out
to be a delusional Islamophobic misogynist who calls himself 'Potus Two'. When
Potus Two announces that both he and Ros will have the chance to meet the
President on Turnberry's hallowed grounds, Ros hatches a plan. Even a slim
chance to do something about one of the biggest rats in the world is not
something she will pass by.
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MBA
Why is
so much of the world managed by arseholes? When workaholic business school hot
shot Ben Stillman is fired, he has the chance to find out. Not a guy to sit
still, Ben jumps head first into turning his former business school into a
world-class madrassa of capitalism.
Ben
has ten days to rescue the launch of its spectacular glass tower, and his own
career – ten days during which he will have to confront terrorist plots,
undercover police, the extravagant demands of the super-rich, and the only
woman who can save him from this madness.
A
satirical thriller, a love story, and a wry look at modern management ideology
all rolled into one – MBA is a piercing yet hopeful enquiry
into the meaning of success.
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Time of Lies
In
2020 the United Kingdom elects its own Donald Trump.
Bob
Grant, former football hooligan, now the charismatic leader of the Britain’s
Great party, has swept to power on a populist tide. With his itchy finger
hovering over the nuclear trigger, Bob presides over a brave new Britain where
armed drones fill the skies, ex-bankers and foreigners are vilified, and the
Millwall football chant ‘No one likes us, we don’t care’ has become an unofficial
national anthem.
Meanwhile,
Bob’s under-achieving, Guardian-reading brother Zack gets a tap on
the shoulder from a shady Whitehall mandarin. A daring plot is afoot to defy
the will of the people and unseat the increasingly unstable PM. Can Zack stop
his brother before he launches a nuclear strike on Belgium? And just what is
ACERBIC, Britain’s most closely-guarded military secret?
A
darkly comic political thriller, Time of Lies is also a
terrifyingly believable portrait of an alternative Britain. It couldn’t happen
here… could it?
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Author Bio –
Douglas
Board is the author of the campus satire MBA (Lightning Books,
2015), which asked why so much of the business world is Managed By
Arseholes. Time of Lies, his second novel, is a timely exploration
of the collapse of democracy.
Born
in Hong Kong, he has degrees from Cambridge and Harvard and worked for the UK
Treasury and then as a headhunter. He has also had a distinguished career in
public life, serving as treasurer of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
and chairing the British Refugee Council.
As
well as writing fiction, he is the author of two applied research books on
leadership, which was the subject of his doctorate. He is currently a senior
visiting fellow at the Cass Business School in London. He and his wife Tricia
Sibbons live in London and Johannesburg.
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Twitter: @BoardWryter
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