This is one manas tale of thirty-eight years in the hotel business. At the Berlin Hilton, he quickly rises through the ranks to the front desk, meeting Marilyn Monroe, the Kennedys and others, but his aim is America. He chooses Canada as a stepping stone. A year later he is at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, and his career is launched. After his sisteras tragic death in Washington, he turns to alcohol to fight depression. We see his rise to the top of his profession, his falling in love and marrying, and his spiraling into alcoholism and nearly losing it all. His struggle makes a fast-paced read as we follow him from Washington to Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico, Louisiana, Rome, Montreal, Toronto and places in between.