Making It

by Mark Edmondson

Would you do anything to make it?
When everything is at marriage, money, your house and your reputation, there is no second chance if you lose.
Laurie is determined to prove to the sceptical Sally that he is no loser. But making that transition from naïve impoverished late adolescence to dynamic, confident, solvent manhood is a difficult and dangerous journey for him.
Knowing that taking up a mediocre, predictable career would stifle him, he becomes a high–risk entrepreneur. But the more success he achieves, the bigger and tougher his enemies and challenges become. Then he meets the most ruthless of them all, the charismatic corporate crook, Chas Wray.
Will he do the deal of his life with Wray or will he just become yet another one of Wray’s miserable victims and lose everyone and everything that’s precious to him?

186 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 30, 2008

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, Making It is the kind of book that's way better than its first chapter lets on. The opening is clunky, with too much setup and too many names. Then Mark Edmondson throws a stranded couple, a broken-down car, and one very bad decision together, and the whole thing catches fire. Not gonna lie, I read the last half in one sitting with cold takeout next to me. A couple of secondary characters never come into focus. For readers who'll give a book a fair shot. Skip it if you bail at the first sign of a slow start.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Look, I respect what Mark Edmondson was going for in Making It, but respect and enjoyment are two different things. The ideas are big, the execution is heavy-handed, and the characters mostly exist to deliver speeches. Some of the speeches are good. Recommend for idea-first readers, skip if you care about people on the page.