I have an offer today which I suspect will tickle your fancy if you've ever questioned working life and the 9-to-5 grind.

With that in mind, let me tell you about my pal Jim Roberts.

I got to know Jim a few months ago when Jim hit reply to a daily email and said hello.

I’m glad he did. Turns out Jim and I have a lot in common.

For one, we’re both Brits. For two, we’re both Michael Neill groupies. For three, we both enjoy our football (although Jim’s a Liverpool fan – I guess you can’t have it all).

But perhaps the biggest thing we have in common is healthy scepticism about the world of work.

Rewind the clock to 2013 and Jim was working at international law firm Ropes & Gray LLP.

But Jim’s heart wasn’t in it. He felt trapped by the corporate legal machine.

When Jim got rejected for a training contract, he decided to change course.

That new course meant a stint travelling around Costa Rica, Patagonia and the Amazon Rainforest. It meant working various part time jobs. And it also meant writing his first book, The Monkey State.

I read the book in Greece a couple of months ago, often with The Monkey State in one hand and Baby Grundy snoozing away in the other.

Now, I’m not a huge fiction guy.

But I lapped up The Monkey State all the same.

Yes, it’s well written. Yes, it’s got interesting characters and a dystopian, jungle-based world that drew me in.

But above all, it’s the clever critique of modern work which weaves through the entire story and which anyone who’s ever questioned working life, wondered if work is worth it or fantasised about breaking free will find both relatable and fascinating.

Here’s the blurb from The Monkey State:

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There is no world beyond the mist. 

No world beyond the trees.

Tell that to Claude Talador.

For moons, Claude – a restless pichu monkey – has been stuck in his office cubicle enduring the monotony of life in Tierra Libre, a beak rainforest world where the rain never stops, boredom reigns supreme and the dictatorship’s servants bleat “No Monkey Business”.

But Claude has never been good at following (all) the rules.

When he follows the eye of the Toucan, he stumbles across the Refuge, a literal underground resistance group with a daring goal; escape in search of the fabled माया.

The stakes are high and the risks are deadly.

Claude must decide if he’s willing to risk everything for a shot at freedom – or abandon his dreams in order to stay alive.

In a world where escape is impossible, one monkey’s courage could change everything.

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A couple of weeks ago, Jim released the second book in the trilogy (In Search of Maya).

To celebrate, Jim has an offer on his books on Amazon.

Right now, and up until Saturday night, you can grab a kindle copy of The Monkey State for free.

Jim’s dropped the price on the kindle version of In Search of Maya to just 99p until Saturday night too.

So if you like the sound of Jim’s books, now’s the time to swing into action.

This link will take you straight to The Monkey State Trilogy at your local Amazon branch:

https://mybook.to/TheMonkeyStateTrilogy