Confessions of a Tax Collector - by Richard Yancey (Paperback)

About the Book

From the Back Cover

Twelve years ago, Richard Yancey answered a blind ad in the newspaper offering a salary higher than what he'd made over the three previous years combined. It turned out that the job was for the Internal Revenue Service -- the most hated and feared organization in the federal government.

So Yancey became the man who got in his car, drove to your house, knocked on your door, and made you pay. Never mind that his car was littered with candy wrappers, his palms were sweaty, and he couldn't remember where he stashed his own tax records. He was there on the authority of the United States government.

With "a rich mix of humor, horror, and angst [and] better than most novels on the bestseller lists" (Boston Sunday Globe), Confessions of a Tax Collector contains an astonishing cast of too-strange-for-fiction characters. But the most intriguing character of all is Yancey himself who -- in detailing how the job changed him and how he managed to pull himself back from the brink of moral, ethical, and spiritual bankruptcy -- reveals what really lies beneath those dark suits and mirrored sunglasses.

Review Quotes

"A rich mix of humor, horror, and angst ...better than most novels on the bestseller lists." - Boston Sunday Globe

"Downright absorbing ...written as well as any novel set in the business world." - Booklist (starred)

"Offers fascinating insight into the most feared and loathed agency of government." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

"An engaging insider's account of life inside the dreaded IRS." - Library Journal

"Alternately amusing and alarming ...a revealing yarn about going after tax delinquents." - Washington Post

"Humor, pathos, and insights into the human condition on almost every page." - Houston Chronicle

"Not just a superb memoir about working for the IRS, it's a superb memoir, period." - Christian Science Monitor