On the Brink

Chaos. Mayhem. Survival.

From a Manhattan schoolyard to the wild Adirondack Mountains, and into the alcohol-soaked halls of 1960s New York advertising, Dave Powers’s journey is anything but ordinary.

After surviving horrific tragedies that leave him orphaned, Dave returns to New York determined to build a future. His creative eye lands him a spot at one of the city’s hottest ad agencies during the Mad Men era, where brilliance collides with nepotism, backroom deals, and male-dominated excess.

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