Youre a loyal government worker, arent you? Follow the clerks adventures through vast government offices as he struggles to make a name for himself on a secret mission for the director. The clerk promised his betrothed he would build a life for them in the city when he moved away from his parents farm, so he refuses to let any absurd situation prevent him from doing his job so well that hell be promoted to senior clerk. The clerk comes face-to-face with a philosopher queen leading saboteurs to overthrow the government with philosophy. Inscrutable bureaucratic systems that seem tangled with war crimes ensnare the clerk. He must also shake a hobo who is convinced the clerks pocket change can transform him from hobo to senator. As the ordeals mount, the clerk takes strength from the little black mouse who lives in his shirt pocket. How to Get a Promotion When Your Boss Is Trying to Kill You is at turns hilarious, intelligent, exhilarating, and imaginative. Part riotous lampoon of the modern workplace and part existential drama of ones place in society, this is the novel you wont stop talking about.