Publisher's Synopsis
In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Thus began Mike Daisey's love affair with the world's biggest bookstore. Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for nearly three years during the dot-com frenzy of the late 1990s. Now that his nondisclosure agreement has expired, he can tell the story of tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics and venture capitalism that feeds into the delusional cocktail exulted as the New Economy.
