Amazon Night Work +Rush Williams Category:  Mainstream Publisher: iUniverse ISBN-10:  0595327583 Type: Fiction Pages: 262 Copyright: Sept. 2004 A fast paced narrative about a straight-laced company man, a widower and single parent, and his beloved only daughter. He hits some bad luck and learns some tough life lessons just as his daughter prepares to enter college. Night Work is a story of interior struggle and change. In January, Curt Mellam, executive, widower and for five years a single parent, prices an imported sports car for a high school graduation present for Karen, his beloved only daughter, expecting her to drive it to Georgetown University in the coming fall. He bever completes the purchase. Instead by summmer, he is dodging bulllets as a moonlighting cab driver and wondering how he will ever pay tuition for Karen. Formerly a straight-laced company man, Curt adapts and makes his way up in the pecking order of his new job. A street fight and jail time, both unthinkable before, earn him top dog status. His new life forces a rethinking of his priorities and principles. Curt becomes a different man and vows never to return to the life of an organization man. The story is told first person with a self effacing humor despite the sometimes violence in it.

Online Review
Fast-paced narrative about a straight-laced company man who loses his job and learns some tough lessons about life as he helps solve a murder mystery.

Literary Review
I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable book. The characters were well-developed and the writing well-defined. The protagonist was thrust into a position where many of us may find ourselves at some time, suddenly pushed from a life we have built innto one we don't even recognize....I will recommend the book to anyone. I found it oddly disturbing but incredibly compelling--rather like life itself...
The author is to be commended for a tale worthing telling and for shari