In Spring 1992, Washington’s top defense lobbyists hone their best pitches bent on winning the lion’s share of military contracts. Except for Will Day, Director of Public Affairs at Computer Control, Inc., who sits at home trying to write a poem. A first-rate rainmaker, Will leads the congressional princes to the trough term after term, assuring safe harbor for ComCon’s top-flight program QuarterMaster. After 20 years, however, he feels worn out from breeding, feeding, and bleeding the house princes to keep ComCon’s coffers full. This year is no different.
Will longs to return to the days when he hoped to be an English professor working nights as a poet. Rest would come in winsome dreams during days beneath giant campus palm trees. But he has a family now, two misunderstandable teenagers and his lovely demanding wife who also seeks success at ComCon. Will is ready to pack it in, but the rest of the players are not, not at all. And they have their own game plans for what could be the longest year of his career. Chinese Restaurants follows Will as he negotiates what promises to be the most interesting time of his life.
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