How to Succeed at Business Spying by Trying: A Novel About Industrial Espionage

by Shepherd Mead

From the Author of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Spy, counterspy, Casanova, and technological Machiavelli, Mark Price is an agent for big business's latest headache, Industrial Espionage. His exploits as he goes about exposing a monstrous conspiracy against the industrial heart of America are at once wild, hilarious, and deadly serious. Along the way he tangles with an assortment of zany characters, including a trio of engagingly odd and highly sexed charmers and a patriarchal embodiment of the American Dream, before his ingenious sleuthing culminates in a shattering climax in the best comic tradition of the Marx brothers.

How to Succeed at Business Spying by Trying is bugged with all the newest electronic hardware and people who have no scruples about using them. Mead brings to his latest book all the wit, humor, and know-how that made his earlier expose of corporate skulduggery, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, one of the biggest money makers of all the books on business ever written.

Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 1969

About the author

Shepherd Mead was one of those men dogged by success. After graduating from Washington University he went to New York to practice being an intellectual and ended up as a junior executive and then a vice-president of Benton & Bowles. His biting attacks against society only gained him greater fame and success, and he finally resigned and fled to Europe with his wife and three children in 1957. He spent a year in Geneva and then went to England in 1958.

As an author, Mead published over fifteen books, including: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Big Ball of Wax, The Admen, The Four Window Girl, How to Succeed at Business Spying By Trying and How to Succeed in Tennis Without Really Trying.