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Asking leaders how their people feel about their company

I don’t spend a lot of time asking leaders how their people feel about their company. I observe their people in action. Do they love their company? If so, they’ll brag about it, just as a matter of course when they think no one’s judging. They’ll think up ways of helping their company when they’re at home, at lunch, or on vacation. They’ll recommend it to their friends, and try to get their most talented friends to join the firm when employment opportunities arise.

A well-traveled man

C. S. Boag
is a former columnist and feature writer. He is a winner of the Walter Stone Memorial Prize for Literature. In the Mister Rainbow series the Hood with No Hands, Death of a Ladies’ Man, Horses for Corpses and Bullets at the Ballet have already been released by Xoum publishers, with The Cock Robin Killer to be released later this year.

A well-traveled man, he says he has renovated too many houses, driven too many taxis and bulldozers. He was a councillor on the Sydney City Council for what he calls a “chilling couple of years”; and has also worked in a hamburger bar, taught English, laboured and performed other tasks “too arduous to mention”. He has five children and now lives with his wife Judith on a small holding near Bathurst.

Rainbow enlists

With his daughter missing and leads dried up, Rainbow enlists the help of a childhood mate—now a spy—Ace Mollema. But can he trust the spook? Or the beautiful dame, for that matter? Above all, can he save the kid?

Sparks fly when Rainbow assumes a temporary identity to get a passport – and those sparks quickly turn to fire.