Book excerpt: After surviving an overdose of chemotherapy, Jack Defiant leaves teaching to work as a travel agent for rich and powerful clients whose playground is the world. When he has an irate caller, he dupes his team leader into taking the call. The company takes a hit, and the team leader loses her bonuses and perks for the year. Little does Defiant know that his team leader belongs to a group within the workplace that believes in the postulates of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, not to mention greed, power, and lust. Defiant's team leader vows to get him fired. Book jacket.