The book is here : Page Five

Page Five

Why the book? Well for one every alternate week I meet someone who has an interest in my past because he or she is planning to start something of their own and would love to have a roadmap or a cheat sheet. Rather than handing out informal advice distilled on the spot, I thought insights collected over the last three years in moments snatched from sleep, work, travel, family and boredom would be far more reliable. I didn’t want to write a prescriptive text since they never did me any good. So I chose the next best thing and wrote a descriptive one. Many such tomes are dedicated to success, money, networks, connections and driven teams of professionals who could. This one focuses on those who couldn’t. Just like the first book I read where the hero actually died and was not miraculously resurrected (Marathon Man, William Goldman[1]). I wanted to tell the real story. Not like a bad B movie held together by a collage of borrowed and unlikely plots themes, but like old love letters drawn from forgotten recesses of our lives.

[1] William Goldman sold out and did just that in Brothers, the sequel to Marathon Man in which Scylla is whisked off from the scene of his death and given a new life.

(to be continued)