The Ordeal of Riley McReynolds

The story takes the reader on a journey through a modern Americancorporation where bottom-line profit and individual glory take precedenceover all else, including the welfare of ordinary employees.As a senior administrative officer with a large insurance and financialservices company, Riley McReynolds deals day in and day out with a wideassortment of egos, personalities and political game-players, led by the sonof a backwoods religious fanatic who struggles mightily to grow rich and gainstatus through a finely tuned blend of bravado, social climbing, and thepower of the imperial chairmanship.Thinking he had seen everything there was to see when a prosecutor andcriminal defese attorney, McReynolds is strangely unprepared for theByzantine politics and insular dysfunction of The Lindbergh Companies. When,because of the company’s relationship with a large and powerful area family,a routine government filing relating to an attempted money laundering becomesa political hand grenade, McReynolds finds himself at a moral intersectioninvolving his own career and the welfare of Liddy Jonssen, an up-and-comingmiddle manager.Against the backdrop of a massive downsizing and the politicalmachinations of The Lindbergh’s senior leadership, the author manages toentertain us with searing social commentary, side-splitting humor, and,ultimately, a touching tale of the central importance of individualresponsibility and moral choice. ABOUT THEMichael O’Rourke is a former law firm partner, statedistrict court judge, and corporate executive. He attended CreightonUniversity and the University of Minnesota, where he received degrees inliberal arts and law.