Letters from Hell's Jails

A Senior Executive, Steven, warns his son: never join any corporation and its legions of cowardly slaves, lest you want to lose your soul.
He travels the world for business and takes every free opportunity to write letters to his son about his 35 year-experience in the corporate world. He wants to warn him about joining this Chinese shadow theater of vain pursuits and psychopathic egos. His son, JL, is trying to cure himself of a serious autistic condition that has impaired him since he was a toddler. The key therapies for Jean have been water sports, the love of his parents and learning to play the guitar. Steven is afraid that the lure of full social integration will lead JL to aspire to conform to the paradigm of the Matrix: money, platitudes, lifelong servitude and the thought police.Steven collects chronological souvenirs in 14 groups of letters (chapters) mainly centered around seven verbs and five business themes: e.g.,To lie, To betray, To hate, To flatter, To hurt, To overpower, To deceive; and the Return on Equity, the Board of Directors and the Corporate Personhood. With respect to the seven verbs just enumerated, Steven will show the irony of the iconic structure of our capitalist world, the Corporation, brilliantly expounding all the capital vices forbidden by a still Christian-based civilization.At the same time Steven narrates his efforts to salvage his soul, sullied and crippled by years of slaving for the icons of universal greed. He also elaborates on the start of his literary career, initially therapeutic, in strict opposition to everything he did before in banking....But things never work out the way you expect…