The Consultant
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3.7 • 30 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
CompWare is in serious trouble after a promised merger falls through, so they do what other businesses have done to bolster their public image: they hire a consulting firm to review and streamline their business practices.
But there's something strange about the firm they hire--more specifically, the quirky gentleman who arrives to supervise the project: Mr. Patoff, tall and thin and wearing a bow tie, and with an odd smile that never quite reaches his eyes.
In his first interactions, the consultant asks a few inappropriate questions, and generally seems a nuisance. Over time, Patoff gains more power, to the point where he seems to be running the whole company. He enacts arbitrary and invasive changes to office protocol. He places cameras all over the building, making workers paranoid; he calls employees at all hours of the night, visits some of their homes and menaces their families.
People who defy the consultant get fired… or worse.
They soon realize they're not just fighting for their jobs: They're fighting for their lives.
The Consultant is a biting workplace satire, with the horrific touches only Bentley Little could provide.
Customer Reviews
Weak ending
I got this to read because I saw the show on Amazon Prime and I thought the book might be fun and interesting like the show. This book is horror and very disturbing at times. That’s fine, except there’s no real conclusion the end. It just kind of it ends without any real resolution or climax. After experiencing all of this fear and terror, you expect a big payoff at the end, where the heroes of the story defeat the bad guy. That doesn’t happen… It just kind of ends.
A whole lot of nonsense
Like many, I read this book after watching the Netflix series. I was intrigued by Stephen King’s praise for the author and the first few chapters were good. Soon though the story just devolved into nonsense. Craig, the main character keeps making dumb decisions, while tolerating more and more absurd demands from the consultant, far beyond whatever rational person would tolerate. The consultant is this all-powerful and strange creature that knows everything and can do anything anytime and anywhere. How can you enjoy a story where the protagonist makes stupid decisions, and the antagonist can do literally anything and is bound by no rules whatsoever? All of this, and the ending explains absolutely nothing and nothing is really resolved. Fortunately, by the end I was so tired of the characters that I didn’t care about any of it and was just happy to be able to put the book away.
Terrible!
Not worth your time or money!