Veteran Hollywood entertainment mogul David Levy, creator and/or
originator of such shows as The Addams Family, Name That Tune, Bonanza,
and The Bob Newhart Show, knows the world of big business better than
anyone, and has seen the struggle for power that breaks and makes
careers in the blink of an eye.
A former presidential speech writer, producer for CBS, and programmer
for NBC, Levy deftly pulls back the curtain on seedy, cutthroat
corporate America in Executive Jungle, an autobiographical novel of
interrelated stories about a Madison Avenue advertising agency. It
centers on the figures who struggle to get to the top of the Otis &
Meade agency, run stealthily yet firmly by aging chief James Hornwell.
Motivated by their own insatiable greed and need for recognition
Hornwell's shining stars find themselves in an endless struggle for
survival, battling friends, enemies, and even themselves, while forming
alliances that will end in honor or dishonor.
Sure to raise an eyebrow or two in the Hollywood and New York scenes,
the ten suspenseful, spicy, and revealing segments that form this novel
offer a fictionalized who's-who of powerbrokers network presidents,
producers, writers, and executives populating the business for forty
years.
