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What Survives the Deal

What Survives the Deal

Bailey, John

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798244668988
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 19 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five thousand years ago, a merchant crossed the sea to sell copper. One deal went wrong-and someone wrote it down.

What Survives the Deal starts with a literary retelling of the world's oldest known customer complaint: a clay tablet written in ancient Mesopotamia accusing a trader named Ea-nāṣir of selling substandard copper and treating a buyer's servant with contempt. Additional stories from China, Genoa, Englsnd, and Florence round out the lesson.

Told in five sweeping tales, the stories follow men locked in a quiet struggle over power, reputation, and memory. In the first, Ea-nāṣir understands margins, leverage, and control. Nanni understands something more dangerous: documentation.

Long after the deal is considered finished, the truth remains.

These are not stories about ancient history. They are about accountability.

What Survives the Deal explores why records matter, why dismissing a grievance can define a legacy, and why human systems-then and now-are only as reliable as what they choose to remember.

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