Ian Rankin - The Hanging Garden A tense and complicated thriller featuring inspector John Rebus from the acclaimed author of BLACK AND BLUE. Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a possible war criminal resident in Edinburgh. His immediate superiors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months looking into ancient history.
When a local politician is found dead in his car, half naked, in a seedy neighborhood known for prostitution and drug trafficking, it's assumed that he died of natural causes in the middle of a sexual escapade. Hoping to avoid an embarrassing situation, Montalbano's superiors expect him to close the case quickly. But the inspector senses that not all is as it seems and determinedly launches a full investigation.
This book is for any man or women who is head of an organization. Most books about management attempt to show executives and administrators at all levels how to perform their assignments efficiently and how to work effectively with superiors, equals, and subordinates. This book has nothing to say about working with superiors and equals. It is solely concerned with the challenging problem of how you can run your own organization so that your authority is secure, communications are good, the purposes of the organization are effectively fulfilled, the people in it want to stay, and changes in your organization's environment are successfully handled as they arise.
