A Key to the Suite

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A Key to the Suite is a novel by American author John D. MacDonald first published in 1962 by Fawcett Publications.
The third-person, subjective narrative is about a business executive, Floyd Hubbard, in attendance at a meeting in order to help the company determine the future employment of Jesse Mulaney, upper management in the sales department. During the course of the novel, Hubbard moves from reluctant hatchet man to hard-hearted corporate executive. As the back cover explains, the novel “examines the ferment of a big-time convention—the plots, the savage maneuverings, the dreadful ease with which a man or a dream can be destroyed.”