Holy Water

Holy Water

"Sly sentence by sly sentence, Holy Water does not have a wasted word." - Washington Post.

Henry Tuhoe works for a multinational conglomerate that's now starting to outsource everything it can to third-world countries. He has a beautiful wife- his college sweetheart- although she won't let him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; he has a bright new home in the leafy suburbs, but he's seriously overleveraged on the mortgage. Life doesn't seem to be so sweet any more.

Then Henry's boss offers him a choice; lose his job or go to the tiny magical, about-to-be-globalised Kingdom of Galado to set up the back office (aka call centre) for a boutique water-bottle company the conglomerate has just acquired. Henry takes the job.

In Galado, Henry wrestles with first-world moral conundrums, the life he left behind, the attention of a steroid-abusing, megalomanical monarch, and a woman intent on redeeming both his soul and her country. He also learns that nothing is quite what it seems.

A former creative director at Young & Rubicam Advertising in NYC, James P. Othmer has developed brand visions and award-winning commercials for the world's leading companies. He now acknowledges hat this very job enabled him to travel the world and meet some of the world's most interesting and innovative people, from artists and musicians to four-star generals, web designers and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. All of the above also exposed him to an array of geopolitical absurdities and moral incongruities', many of which appear in Holy Water. His memoir, Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet, which was first published in the USA last year, will also be published alongside Holy Water by UWAP in July 2010. Adland received rave reviews on US release.

Holy Water
UWA Publishing
Author: James P. Othmer
ISBN: 9781742582665
Price: $32.95