Pegasus Book Club

This is the second edition of Merrill R. Chapman’s highly successful book, In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters. In the book, he chronicles the history of the high-tech industry during the last few decades, highlighting the stupid mistakes made by the so called ‘excellent’ companies and how they perished because of their on foolish decisions and actions.

As in the first edition, Chapman’s extensive knowledge of the industry and familiarity with the companies he is mentioning in the book makes the narrative gripping, engaging and funny. His familiarity with the topics and experience with the companies give the readers details and insights that one will never find in any other book.

The foreword of the second edition is written by another veteran of the software industry—Eric Sink. The new edition contains 14 chapters, a glossary, selected bibliography and an index in addition to the foreword, preface and Afterword.

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A 4000 year old document—The Seventh Scroll—contains the location of the crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose. Egyptologist Royan Al Simma and her husband Duraid are trying to decode the cryptic messages of the scroll that will reveal them the location of the Pharaoh’s crypt.

But they are not alone in the search. There are a group of cruel and unscrupulous people who will wipe out everything that stands between them and the treasures.

Druaid is brutally murdered and their house is burned and the attackers take the scroll also with them. Left with nothing but her memory, Royan seeks the help of one of Druaid’s friends—Sir Nicholas Quenton Harper—a daring man who will stake his fortune and his life to join her hunt for the king’s tomb.

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