This story is an up-from-nothing coming-of-age memoir, a first-person partner account of the failure of Arthur Andersen, and a search for and rediscovery of a higher purpose and spiritual meaning.
The author grew up in Aberdeen, Washington, a tough harbor town of lumber mills, labor wars, pollution, and dozens of whore houses. The author was desperate to escape its shackles.He climbed the greasy pole to the partnership at Arthur Andersen.
 Andersen collapsed in 2002 under the weight of Enron and other financial scandals. The book chronicles the author’s unlikely ascent to the partnership at Andersen, with insights into what went phenomenally right during the firm’s heyday, and disastrously wrong in the end. When Andersen died, the author’s world imploded as well. He was left with no choice but to re-examine everything he thought he knew about himself. What he discovered at the dead end of the path of self-flagellation was a new beginning radically different than the one he left behind. Robert Wilson was a partner in Arthur Andersen, and later the chief financial officer of both public and private companies. He has also sat on several corporate boards of directors. Robert lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Arizona and Newport, Rhode Island. “Wilson’s heartfelt story is a Faustian American tale, dramatic, Dreiserian, and delicious.” -J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life & Mailer’s Last Days: Remembrances “A cautionary tale that is must reading for all aspiring business professionals and executives.” -Jeffrey R. Alves, Dean Emeritus, Jay S. Sidhu School of Business & Leadership, Wilkes University “Although the details of Wilson’s story are uniquely his, the brushstrokes are universal to the human experience: economic hardship and striving for better; spiritual search and rediscovery; and, above all the rescuing power of love " -Lydia Jumonville, President and CEO, SCL Health, Intermountain Healthcare