Joe discovers that there can be more to a housewarming than simply moving the furniture in, and that the benefits of Big-Time Charity can have their own special attractions.
Joe is wooing the beautiful and ruthless managing director of an industrial firm in the pursuit of a new contract. Susan begins to suspect that Joe's interest in his client is more than merely professional.
Personal feelings and business do not mix, as Joe makes clear when his consultancy firm is called in to investigate a company's falling profits and the man apparently responsible is someone to whom Joe owes an enormous debt of gratitude.
Joe gets to know his son's girlfriend rather better than he expected, and finds that he likes it - up to a point. However, the girl is willing to go beyond that point..
There's a time and a place for everything, but right now a major deal is at stake. When his partner's love affair begins to interfere with business, Joe decides to act.
Big business, and a tightrope walk between the golden handshake and a knife in the back. This is Joe Lampton's world. But when an unscrupulous company calls on him to be their hatchet-man, he reminds a few people that a hatchet cuts two ways...
Joe finds that in a divorce case a man can be guilty until proven innocent - especially if he has never met the woman with whom he is alleged to have committed adultery!
A hungry bank manager, four pounds in his account and a repossessed car are hardly the attributes of a man at the top. Joe is discovering that nothing fails like failure - even if there are consolations.