The Consultant, by Bentley Little
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CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices.But there's something strange about the firm they hire--more specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project: Mr. Patoff, tall and thin and wearing a bow tie, and with an odd smile that never quite reaches his eyes.In his first interactions, the consultant asks a few inappropriate questions, and generally seems a nuisance. Over time, Patoff gains more power, to the point where he seems to be running the whole company. He enacts arbitrary and invasive changes to office protocol. He places cameras all over the building, making workers paranoid; he calls employees at all hours of the night, visits some of their homes and menaces their families. People who defy the consultant get fired… or worse. They soon realize they're not just fighting for their jobs: They're fighting for their lives.The Consultant is a biting workplace satire, with the horrific touches only Bentley Little could provide.
The Consultant, by Bentley Little- Amazon Sales Rank: #126382 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.20" h x 1.40" w x 6.30" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
Review ''The horror poet laureate.'' --Stephen King, praise for the author ''If there's a better horror novelist working today, I don't know who it is.'' --Los Angeles Times, praise for the author
About the Author Bentley Little is the author of numerous novels, short stories, articles, essays, and reviews. After earning a BA in communications and an MA in English, Little sold his soul and abandoned all artistic integrity, working for eight years as a bureaucrat for a midsized city in Orange County, California. His first novel, The Revelation, won the 1990 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for best first novel. A Luddite with no access to the Internet, Little still listens to vinyl records and does not own a cell phone, an iPod, an MP3 player, or a Blackberry. He has one wife and one son.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bentley Little At His Best........A Descent Into Hell.......... By Robin Lee I am an avid reader and a book collector. I am also a "Cemetery Dance" girl. That is originally how I was introduced, many years ago, to this author. Once I read his 1995 novel, "University", I was hooked and became a devout fan forever. If you are truly a fan than you know how sick and twisted some of his novel's can be....This story is no exception. ( So, good that it's bad. Like eating too much candy)......This novel is in the same formula that I am used to like "The Mailman", "The Store" and "the Resort" where it has Big Brother watching over not just your shoulder but your entire life...With 'The Consultant" you have just crazy, bloody madness that leads into a terrifying descent into Hell......The dark plot builds with steady tension until you get a shocking ending.....Great cast of characters that just get harassed and tortured........It's just non-stop weird and strange page turner.........CompWare is company that is in trouble due to a failing merger and the board is afraid of stocks falling......They hire a Consultant group called BFG that comes along with the consultant Regus Patoff......He shows up everywhere without announcement.....Employees are paranoid and afraid......Some start going missing or are committing suicide.....Patoff shows up at their homes........Craig Horne starts to think there is something else going on at the company and he can't get the consultant off his back......There are strange and gory mandatory two day retreats that all employees must attend ......Little by little the skin starts pealing away from Regus Patoff revealing the truth.....He wants CompWare to run like a one man machine in a parallel world......Does he fail at his job of saving the firm.....What will be the consequences because Regus Patoff never fails......................Just Pure Evil.....
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful. One of Little’s most enjoyable and profound books yet By Mr. Louis V. Proud I’ve done some unpleasant jobs over the years in an effort to support myself while writing and continue paying the bills. I’ve worked in various factories, as a builder’s laborer, as a mail clerk, as a fitter and machinist, and on one occasion I considered gaining employment in the adult film industry…just kidding. However, I have very little first-hand experience of the business world.One writer who does understand the ins and outs of the business world, having worked as a technical writer before gaining success as a horror novelist, is Bentley Little. If you haven’t read any Little, you should. He’s one of the smartest, wittiest, and most insightful authors at work today in the area of horror and supernatural fiction. He wasn’t dubbed “the horror poet laureate” by Stephen King for no reason.Little is a maverick and a nonconformist, and in his latest novel, The Consultant, he explores the timely theme of Big Brother in the workplace. The story revolves around family man Craig Horne, a senior employee at a software company called CompWare. When the company begins to have difficulties after a promised merger falls through, they decide to hire a consulting firm—called BFG—to review and streamline their business practices.Enter Mr Patoff, BFG’s representative. Tall, thin, and wearing a red bow tie, at first the consultant comes across as annoying, invasive, and rather peculiar. It soon comes to light that he’s downright sinister and creepy, and that, rather than helping CompWare and its employees, he’s carrying out a mysterious agenda of his own—one of total domination and possible non-human significance. Under his authority, cameras are installed all over the building, employees are subjected to painful and horrific drug tests, and bizarre and random changes are made to office protocol.There are more than a few grains of truth in this piercing workplace satire:“Things are going well,” the consultant said. “Not just here but everywhere. Businesses are becoming more efficient, doing more with less. The economy’s coming back, and they’re not hiring, not wasting money on people. They’re staying lean and mean, boosting profits but not payrolls. It’s part of the overall strategy, and we’ve been working on it for a long time. Why do you think we came up with email? Why do you think we invented smart phones?“We’ve got them checking their email at home, on vacation, at night, on weekends. They’re working even when they’re not at work. And all those overtime hours are free! It’s why we can keep cutting staff and raising profits. We keep them off guard by making them think they’re always about to be fired or outsourced, and we’ve got them!”The Consultant is one of Little’s most enjoyable and profound books yet. Parts of it border on genius—including the ending—and I hope it achieves the recognition and success it so rightly deserves.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful. This the the return of the old Bentley Little. By Nathaniel Trusting I feel I should begin by saying that I've been a huge fan of Bentley Little for quite awhile now. That said, as is the case with most of his fans, I have often found myself reading his books in a formulaic sort of way: the beginning catches me with its brash and intriguing opening scenes, I get swept through the middle very quickly by the swiftly moving, often zany action that progresses into such a crazy crescendo of violence and unique horror that I've read it before I realize it's over, and the ending...ultimately disappoints. Truly, this seems to be a staple of many of Mr. Little's works; he simply can't seem to come up with a decent ending. The buildup through the book nearly never pays off as well in the end, yet it's always an entertaining read.That said, there are a select few titles that I actually really enjoyed from start to finish, ending included. This was one of them. In fact, I'd argue against some of the (upsettingly) few reviews here and say it's one of Mr. Little's best endings to date.Moreso, I found it to be a return to the Bentley Little I fell in love with so long ago. It seemed very reminiscent of The Store, The Mailman, or The Association, some of his best works in my opinion. I had it preordered well before it was out and ate through it in a single read. This is the Bentley Little I've been waiting to see more from. I won't bother going into detail about the story, as Mr. Louis V. Proud seems to have done an exceedingly commendable job of that already. I will, however, say that if you are a fan of Little's older work then you're in for a treat.
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