MATT BEAUMONT

E, 2000, HarperCollins

'e' is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-faced bitchiness - just everyday office politics.

Meet: A CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management; A director who is a genius, if only in his own head; Creatives with remarkable brains, if only in their trousers; A copywriter with the two things no adwoman should ever let show - underarm hair and a conscience; Secretaries who drip honey and spit cyanide; The sad git in accounts.

Consisting entirely of e-mails, 'e' spends a few weeks in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency embarked upon the quest to land 'Coca-Cola' the account they would sell their collective grandmothers in a car boot sale to acquire. This is one pitch that nobody will ever forget...

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