"A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe

Atlanta developer Charlie Croker is a big man with a bigger problem. He's built a 40-story monument to himself - complete with mall, cineplex, hotel-and-apartment complex and more - known as Croker Concourse. But he doesn't have the tenants to pay back the half-billion dollars he borrowed to build it and the rest of his empire. So he does what any quail-hunting, bourbon-drinking, mall-building good old boy might do. He invites a prospective client to …

…life - the excessively young wife, the possible betrayal of a good friend - has gone seriously wrong. Suffering from terrible insomnia and an excruciatingly painful knee problem, he ponders how life can go on this way. The question is to be or not to be. And if the answer is "to be," then to be "what" or "whom"? Bibliography 1.<Tab/>A Man in Full. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998