Keep Your Enemies Closer
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CD8UYT4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 183 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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For the first eleven years of his career, he worked firstly as a litigation lawyer at one of New Zealand’s leading law firms and then as a corporate lawyer at New Zealand’s largest industrial company and a US Fortune 500 equivalent. Richard Parker was born in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand. He has two daughters, Sophie and Harriet. Before writing Keep Your Enemies Closer, he wrote a manuscript called Don’t Tell My Mother. He then worked
Rob quickly finds himself in the midst of a highly competitive and acrimonious battle for a 51% stake in United Pictures with a host of bidders including the corporate raider and private equity firm Bainbridge Capital now headed by Martin Saul. The only question is can he stop them? Can Rob stop them and does he want to? As Rob battles with Bainbridge Capital and Feldman, who has come to see Rob as a threat to his ongoing tenure as CEO, the FBI and SEC have come to believe that a number of high profile individuals in the capital markets of London and New York are involved in systematic insider trading. When ex-lawyer and investment banker Rob Perkins is appointed as F! Corporation’s new Chief Operating Officer, he doesn’t know that his predecessor was fired for his failed attempt to oust F!’s duplicitous CEO, Jonathan Feldman. It doesn’t take long for Rob to realise that Saul’s appointment as CEO of the giant private equity firm and hedge fund, Bainbridge Capital, changes everything for Feldman, F! Corporation and Rob himself. As the novel moves from the Cannes Film Festival in the French Riviera to the City of London, Wall Street and Hollywood Rob looks to stamp his mark on F! as i
Entertainment plus I picked up this book with 1Entertainment plus Tatiana I picked up this book with 14 hours to kill on a long haul flight and from the outset it hooked me. Apart from the book's sheer entertainment; suspense, sex and betrayal, it was all you'd expect from the flakey corporate business world and more. Keep your Enemies closer delivers a raw and realistic insight to the media moguls and financiers that control large global corporations and the constant sense that nothing is what it seems.. hours to kill on a long haul flight and from the outset it hooked me. Apart from the book's sheer entertainment; suspense, sex and betrayal, it was all you'd expect from the flakey corporate business world and more. Keep your Enemies closer delivers a raw and realistic insight to the media moguls and financiers that control large global corporations and the constant sense that nothing is what it seems.. James Gilbert said literally literary ambrosia. We live in hard times.Inflation goes up but salaries stay the same. Wars, disease and nuclear proliferation dominate the news. Violence, intollerance and endless political scandals seem to be the norm.It's enough to make you question your will to carry on. Just pulling back the covers each morning takes superhuman strength. Why bother? Things just keep getting worse.But just when you want to give up, life gives you hope; the rainbow after the thunder storm, the kid pulled alive from a collapsed building two weeks after an earthquake, and i. A must read! From the beginning I was hooked by the pace and energy of this book. The level of detail about the environment in which this novel is set has created a credible world of corporate power and extravagance. You can almost feel the speed of the elevators taking you up to the glass curtained offices in London, LA and New York. The author created an array of successful characters and every reader will like Rob Perkins. The author isn't afraid to expose the dark side of Hollywood but he has a good understanding of his audience and pulled back bef
He graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Master of Philosophy (Honours). He now works for one of New Zealand’s leading media and entertainment companies. For the first eleven years of his career, he worked firstly as a litigation lawyer at one of New Zealand’s leading law firms and then as a corporate lawyer at New Zealand’s largest industrial company and a US Fortune 500 equivalent. About the Author Richard Parker was born in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand. He has also written the novel First Edition about an editor at a top London tabloid newspaper. It was optioned by Hollywood film studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) in 2003. Before writing Keep Your Enemies Closer, he wrote a manuscr