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My Years with General Motors became an instant best seller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tell - a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - August 2022 Soul On Sale: The narrator gives his soul to the devil, saying it is "more work than it is worth." The Rapture Module: Tucker makes a mistake at work, gets a promotion, and realizes his life is meaningless. Infrastructure: A woman in her 40's is newly married, and confides in her friend over brunch, they are going to have a baby. Leviathan: An intergalactic cruise ship is damaged and resources are running dangerously low. The Fortune Teller's Confession: A fortune teller asks to be killed by the husband of his mistress. Human Contact: A ...

After escaping from New Chicago, Marisol and Elias take shelter in the quarantine zone only to be stalked by nightmarish, blood-enhanced creatures called Threshers. But that’s not the worst of it as they find themselves struggling to survive against Longman’s assassins and weaponized Reaper mechs who are hunting them down.

Marisol is a bounty hunter, tasked with tracking down "Runners" - people who have been paid to take the fall for crimes committed by the wealthy. But when she captures a young Runner with a secret, she unknowingly stumbles into a vast conspiracy. The hunter becomes the hunted as those in power turn the city inside out trying to crush anyone who would dare to expose the truth.

Quinn was a Marine sergeant hell-bent on ensuring that her young daughter had a world to grow up in. Now that an alien armada known as the Syndicate has invaded, that seems like a distant dream that will never be realized. But rather than accepting that the world she wanted was over, Quinn organizes a ragtag group of Marines and resistance fighters who take the fight to the aliens, even as they discover that things are not as they appear to be. The Syndicate leader, known as the Potentate, watches over everything, biding his time, working feverishly to manipulate their actions....

They've braved the land beyond the walls and faced nightmarish Threshers and Reaper mechs. Marisol has reached new levels and unlocked blood enhancements, and Elias has found a power that might prove to be instrumental in the final battle. On top of all that, the pair possess something they’ve never had before: allies and weapons. There's only one way forward, however, and that path lies through destroying the dictator of New Chicago. The duo must use everything at their disposal in what’s sure to be a suicide mission, a return to the city to end Longman’s reign once and for all.

In Part II of the Syndicate Wars series, Marines travel through space and time to once and for all end the Syndicate Invasion. Conflict rises between the Space Marines and a rogue faction of the resistance, while Samantha is taken during her attempts to use her otherworldly abilities to save them. It’s a race against time as Quinn struggles to find a way out of the silo and run a gauntlet through the badlands of Wyoming, where she confronts bands of armed scavengers and resistance fighters who will do anything to stop her from saving her daughter.