KING OF THE MISSISSIPPI

This extremely funny audiobook highlights the tension that arises when a job interviewer believes that an applicant is unqualified--only to discover that his colleagues disagree and have hired the "incompetent." The resulting ego-driven competition set in the cutthroat world of business consulting is captured flawlessly by narrator Jeremy Bobb. Bobb recognizes that Freedman's subtext focuses on the competing consultants' inability to separate the personal from the professional. The dialogue is superb, particularly in the opening scene in which cocky Brock Wharton interviews Mike Fink, a veteran whom Wharton perceives as an immediate threat. As the story develops and the egos collide, Bobb delivers every aspect of the audiobook in a memorably entertaining manner. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2019]