Piers Anthony

From Library Journal Surrounding every salesman is an aura of desperation, and Fisk Centers is no exception. Getting involved with everything from the illegal adoption racket to death insurance to instant teleportation devices, Centers careens from one disaster to another in this tongue-in-cheek look at the salesman of the future. Anthony's genius for satire comes to the surface in this pithy portrait of tomorrow's Everyman. Recommended. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Mr. Fisk Centers buys real estate on Mars, where he drives a supersonic car in a suicide race and visits a robot mortician for a sample embalming. Reprint. Its about a middle aged man who loses everything to a scam artist and has to start from scratch. He tried many different jobs and never seems to be able to make it at one. He ends up adopting a mouthy orphan who aids him in his search to land a job. They end up in a high speed race, and cemetery, and undercover job dealing with shrinking corpses. n amazing book, its never dull.