The Tales were originally conceived from real life situations to back up a business book. Colleagues liked them, so a collection was compiled. The 'linkman' was based on Philip Marlowe, but remodelled as a business consultant working in Southern England in the mid seventies to early millennium. Guy Gundle, 'our hero', like Marlowe is a hard drinking, heavy smoking man with an eye for the ladies; he is also an addicted race horse gambler. Flawed,...