Kevin vs. Corporate Life

Kevin has €312 in his account, a job offer he can't afford to refuse, and exactly one rule: never sleep with coworkers.

Thirty-year-old actuary Kevin spends his days modelling catastrophe for a living. Interest-rate shocks, market crashes, the collapse of banks. He can estimate the odds of almost anything three years out. What he can't calculate is how he'll pay rent on Friday, why he keeps sleeping in his car, or why a woman named Emily makes his rule feel less like wisdom and more like a dare.

Welcome to Global Solutions: eighteen floors of glass, seven women on his new team, a coffee machine that counts as critical infrastructure, and a Head of Governance who treats a footnote like a moral position. It's a place where the org chart is decorative, rumors move faster than facts, and an anonymous HR complaint can turn a man into a case file without ever naming his accuser.

Then a man on a floor that isn't on the elevator panel offers Kevin a favor. Just one number. Just one small change, easy to explain, that nobody will ever notice. And Kevin, who has been honest his whole life and has nothing to show for it, is very, very tired.

Kevin vs. Corporate Life is a dark, funny, unexpectedly tender novel about work, money, loneliness, and the small decisions that add up to a life. It's about what a man will sign when he's out of options, what it costs when he finally stops, and how the only way out of a maze of forms might be to learn to speak its language better than the people who built it.

For readers who enjoy:

• Sharp workplace satire with a heart
• Kafkaesque bureaucracy and office absurdity
• Flawed, funny, deeply human narrators
• Stories of money trouble, bad nights, and hard-won second chances

Funny where it hurts. Honest where it counts.