Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

Brian Olsen

Jun 2013 · Brian Olsen

About this ebook

Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead. The mysterious megacorporation Amalgamated Synergy has taken a deadly interest in Alan and his three roommates, and the hapless quartet are woefully unequipped to deal with the psychotic secretaries, murderous middle managers, and villainous vice-presidents hunting them down. Their investigation leads them deep into Amalgamated Synergy’s headquarters, but can Alan and his friends stay alive long enough to discover who – or what – waits for them on the top floor?

Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom is the first book of The Future Next Door, a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series in four parts.

Book One: Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom
Book Two: Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell
Book Three: Mark Park and the Flume of Destiny
Book Four: Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time

Ratings and reviews

Unique take on a favorite theme, well written, characters whose heads I don't want to bash together, good pacing, understandable existiential crises, a variety of improvised weapons from the practical to the absurd, not perfect but all in a good read. I'm definitely going to read the sequel.

The world turns upside down and takes an unexpected tangent, and four friends are fighting hard to save their lives, and maybe the world, if they have a little luck and play really hard.

Pacing, humor, and a novel twist make this an excellent read. The main characters are never two dimensional enough to discount, even when you are first introduced to them, and they are likeable, even though each is far from perfect.

About the author

Brian Olsen is a writer and director living in New York City. He is the author of The Future Next Door, a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series, as well as a number of plays, sketches and monologues in less complicated genres. He’s directed works for the stage in New York, regionally and on national tours, and assistant directed the world premiere of Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell. He has an MFA from the Actors Studio, so if you need someone to cry on cue, he’s your man.