A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Editors'' Choice
A New York Post Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Biography/Memoir
''Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down'' Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking
''Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable'' Daily Telegraph
''A spin doctor to the rich and corrupt spills his secrets... starts with the crack of a Jack Reacher thriller'' The New York Times
The man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media.
After nearly two decades in the PR business, Phil Elwood wants to come clean, by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that''s made him so successful. The first step