To Do the Deal - A Novel in Stories by Cathy Baker

Meet Kenneth Bodine. He’s living on the edge of the nation’s capital, but he’s not a power broker, oh no. He’s in commission sales. The last refuge of the dispossessed, or so his wife calls it. He’s a decent sort, much like you. Somewhat smart, occasionally funny. With a talent for numbers, but not for managing his own career. He’s just trying to figure out what he should be doing when there isn’t anything he really feels called to do. He’s on a hero’s journey, though he doesn’t know it. This is his quest: to preserve his essential decency against the need, sometimes, to cut a corner to do the deal.