On the Brink

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This gripping coming-of-age story takes you from a schoolyard in Manhattan to the untamed wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains and then back to the alcohol-fueled halls of the New York Advertising world.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Barely surviving the horrific events that have left him alone in the world Dave Powers returns to New York and uses his design skills to land a position at one of the city's hottest advertising agencies. It's the Mad Men era in the creativity-focused ad business where the male-dominated bureaucrats control the action with all their nepotistic womanizing antics. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Dave falls in love with his boss a tenuous outlier who is one of the few female C-Suite creatives in the entire industry it's a recipe for disaster.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will the tragedies of his early life crush his hopes and ambitions? Or can this still immature young man rise above the fray and summon the fortitude to succeed? </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Based on true events the angst and heartache of this intense novel punctuated by the humor-driven dialog will take your emotions on a lightning-fast rollercoaster ride.</span></p>