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John le Carré meets Robert Harris, with this business-and-moral-dilemma dimension of a corporate geopolitical thriller. ★★★★★ “An exciting novel that feels like a genre of its own – entertaining, thought-provoking, and beautifully written. I was hooked from page one.” August...

Tumult in Mecca: From Civil Servant to Global Business Adventurer transports listeners to 1979, a year of upheaval and change. Henrik Bertelsen, a Danish civil servant and baby boomer, is dedicated to his stable life in Copenhagen. Alongside his English wife, Sammy, they are building a co-housing community and navigating the complex adoption of a child from Indonesia. Henrik longs for peace and stability to secure his career. But life takes an unexpected turn when he is offered the chance to renovate hospital kitchens in Saudi Arabia.

The book explains what it takes to build and manage partner channels in the software industry. The book uses the business model framework introduced by Alexander Osterwalder. It provides a practical guide for organizing the activities required to design productive partner programs as well as implement these programs for the recruitment and management of partners that will find, win, make, keep, and grow happy customers on our behalf.

Going Global on a Shoestring is a handbook for the executives and business developers in small and medium-sized software companies that lay out the strategies for global expansion as well as perform the actual fieldwork with winning the first customers abroad. It is a book about how to get the first customers outside your domestic market. We could call it establishing the bridgehead for further growth.

Der dänische Ökonom Henrik Bertelsen führt ein geordnetes Leben im Kopenhagener Ministerium. Mit seiner englischen Frau Sammy plant er eine Wohngemeinschaft in Nordseeland und die Adoption eines indonesischen Kindes. Doch dann kommt der Anruf, der alles auf den Kopf stellt. Aus Saudi-Arabien. Krankenhäuser sollen ihre Küchen modernisieren. Ein Abenteuer, das aufregend beginnt – und in einem religiösen Inferno endet. In Mekka brechen Unruhen aus, Schüsse hallen, und Henrik kämpft ums Überleben.

Handlingen foregår i tidsrummHandlingen foregår i tidsrummet juli til december 1979. Henrik sidder i et godt solidt job som fuldmægtig i arbejdsministeriet. Ved siden af underviser han på Danmarks Forvaltningshøjskole og på Københavns Universitet. Holder han næsen i sporet ligger karrieren snorlige foran ham.

For ussel mammon er Hans Peter Bechs anden roman i serien om Henrik Bertelsen og udspiller sig fra sensommeren 1985 til foråret 1986 – en tid præget af koldkrigspolitik, spirende reformtanker i Sovjetunionen og et vestligt erhvervsliv på jagt efter nye markeder i øst.