A story about the dichotomy between Corporate America''s short-term expectations and a regular Joe''s search for meaning in the daily grind, the book surprisingly gains traction within the music community.
When a regular Joe washes the windows of a Philadelphia skyscaper and witnesses the unthinkable on the pages of this work, music lovers of an alternative rock band, the Barenaked Ladies, dash to buy the book by the same title as the band's song.
What specifically was the inspiration behind When I Fall? Real-life pressure to meet corporate goals, and ill-founded decisions to press forward with something everyone knew was broken, but deliberately looked the other way. I parlayed my personal reality during those harrowing times into a novel about the pharmaceutical industry, where a Philadelphia-based firm presses on with a miracle cancer cure they already know is showing long-term irreversible side effects.
Did the idea flourish from the band's song a la fanfiction style? No, real-life experience and window washers who continually rapelled past my Ivory-tower window spawned the idea, but the song did provide an interesting twist that later found its way into the story.
So when Hollywood comes a-knockin'...(we all have to dream), suffice it to say that the soundtrack is probably already laid, assuming of course BNL and Warner Bros. Music would be amenable to the additional publicity...
Killer With Three Heads is the second book in the Killer series. Bulletproof Morris ‘Mojo’ Johnson returns to New York as John Morrison after a 10 years’ absence to find the people responsible for kidnapping his daughter, Maria.
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