Doing the Business – Volume 2
The gags fly faster than the bullets in this ‘Blazing Saddles’ versus ‘The Godfather’ mash up.
At Texan American Telecom (TAT) the business is going gangbusters, which is appropriate as they are in bed with the Cosa Nostra. Now the Mob wants to modernise and adopt affirmative action recruitment policies, outsourcing and cash flow optimisation. What does this betoken: an equal opportunity murder policy, targets for ethnic cleansing and a company pension plan? They need TAT’s business acumen and summon the ‘cowboy telecoms company’ to a summit meeting in Malta to help determine a new strategic direction, the one signposted the Highway to Hell.
Tales of deceit, revenge and animal lust unfold as Silas Marshall and his cowboy posse encounter snakes in the grass, transgender wives, salacious boy scouts, capricious lederhosen-clad landlords, cuckolded accountants, cuckoo clocks, carnivorous deck furniture and a unique royal artefact.
The summit plumbs new nadirs in business co-operation, diplomatic faux pas and debauchery until fate intercedes in the form of a vengeful, newly-elongated gimp. This second volume in the ‘Doing the Business’ series ends with a boom, several busts, and an unexpected sting in the tail that prompts a hastily-executed winding up order.
‘Vendetta in Valletta’ is probably the funniest book about business since Donald J Trump’s ‘Think Big and Kick Ass’ – and even reveals the true origins of Garibaldi biscuits.
