The Perpetual Summer

"A number of professions have intriguing similarities to detective work—like reporter, or psychiatrist, or even historian. But an HR executive for a megacorporation? Chuck Restic, narrator of this densely packed novel, has been absorbing what Orwell called 'duckspeak'—'core deliverables,' 'key dependencies'—long enough to know that if he doesn’t take this quacking seriously, he’ll be at the mercy of people who do.... This one’s all about style, and the juicy bits are all in the evocative writing—'the wonderfully sad pink of an early Sunday morning'—and the offbeat information: to see in darkness look out the corner of your eye."
— Booklist

“Nuanced character portraits and slowly building suspense make this both an involving human story and a crackling crime yarn.”
— Kirkus

“Chuck’s sharp, wry insights into the absurdity of the corporate world reveal his existential need for more meaning in his life, and many scenes are genuinely funny… Phillips’s clever blend of the absurd and the serious will have readers looking forward to Chuck’s next adventure.”
— Publishers Weekly“If there is such a thing as corporate noir, Phillips nails it, and the literary flavor of these terrifically entertaining mysteries can be best described as Philip Marlowe meets Dilbert.”


— Booklist