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The Multima Scheme
by Gary D. McGugan
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GENRE: Suspense, Fiction
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BLURB:
Can
Multima Corporation withstand another attack from organized crime? While
billionaire John George Mortimer copes with treatment for cancer, the
accomplished CEO must also ward off challenges for control of his sprawling
fictional American empire both from within the company and from nefarious
powers operating outside the law.
The
Multima Scheme is a fast-paced account of the lengths to which organized crime
can infiltrate large global corporations and seize control of respected
businesses to conceal activities that are both illegal and immoral but generate
billions. It’s also a story of survival – how individuals and organizations
might react under intense pressures and the ease with which people can cross
lines between what’s legal and what’s not.
Using
his knowledge of how large multinationals operate – accumulated over 40 years
working with major corporations around the world – author Gary D. McGugan
weaves a tale of intrigue using a writing style that readers will find hard to
put down once started.
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EXCERPT ONE:
His
elaborate scheme to oust John George Mortimer, CEO of Multima Corporation,
started to unravel with his first telephone call in the wee morning hours. His
contact at The Organization reported that no one could locate Wendal Randall –
a development of serious concern to Knight. To engineer the election of Multima
Logistics’ wayward division president to the post of CEO of the entire
corporation, he desperately needed Randall at the meeting.
Events
worsened. By mid-day, Knight learned that Randall would not appear at the
meeting at all. Instead – at the same time as all the other company direc¬tors
– he was shocked to hear the FBI had arrested Randall and was holding him in
custody, charged with multiple serious crimes. Knight might still have had a
chance to carry out the Mortimer coup successfully until a subsequent startling
revelation proved all his efforts would be in vain.
John
George Mortimer, more devious and cunning than Knight ever imag¬ined, had
somehow finagled an exchange of corporate shares. He’d found a way to convert
some Multima shares from one class to another. The shrewd maneuver instantly
shifted the corporation’s balance of power entirely in Mortimer’s favor.
Knight’s plot had no hope of success with the new equity structure.
Instead,
he found himself trapped in a rapidly unfolding disaster. A decade earlier – on
his recommendation – The Organization had invested a billion dollars in
Multima. And just the previous week, Howard had knowingly put that billion
dollars at precarious risk with his scheme to remove John George Mortimer and
seize control.
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GUEST POST:
Where do Ideas for “The Multima Scheme” Come From?
I’ve
been lucky. My career in the business world spanned four decades with units of
large multinational corporations – Japanese, German and American. I had the
opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people with a lot of different quirks.
I had a chance to observe, listen to, and interact with some of the most senior
people in those companies to gain insight into the ways they think and act.
When it came time to create a novel, I was able to draw on a reservoir of
personalities and attributes to create truly unique characters in The Multima Scheme.
I
read voraciously. Novels, biographies, history, and other genres feed my
imagination. And, perhaps most importantly, I read multiple newspapers every
day to be aware of what’s happening in the real world. Not surprisingly, what’s
going on in the news can be excellent fodder to digest, let germinate, and
eventually work its way into a story. Take CEO John George Mortimer’s use of
his chief of corporate security in The
Multima Scheme, for example. In today’s fearful America, it’s not unusual
for corporations to hire former law enforcement leaders to design ways to keep
their businesses safer for customers and employees. It’s also widely reported –
and accepted – that American governments have used illegal and offshore bases
to conceal the torture and imprisonment of people considered a threat to
national security. It’s not a great leap, then, to create a storyline that a
fugitive from American justice in South America might also be considered a
threat to security and treated in ways completely foreign to accepted standards
back home.
Organized
crime is also a curse on our society. As a businessman, I’ve seen companies
with very suspicious ownership connections and complex financial structures.
There could be little doubt some of those businesses were connected in some way
to undesirable elements who sought to hide their involvement. Organized crime
is sometimes glamorized by Hollywood or the media but its pungent tentacles
wriggle into society in ways that are truly despicable. Consider human
trafficking. It’s a major domain of organized criminals. Every year, thousands
of women and girls around the world are captured and enslaved to endure years
of humiliation and degradation. But organized crime often escapes detection and
punishment because criminal elements have so effectively infiltrated even large
corporations that they operate with a veneer of responsibility.
The Multima Scheme
challenges readers to think about possible consequences of The Organization
taking over and controlling a huge well-respected supermarket chain and engages
readers in a quick-paced account of John George Mortimer’s frantic struggle to
ward off the criminals. The plot, characters and events are all great fiction
and products of my imagination. The story, laced with a strong dose of
possibility, makes the novel very hard to put down once started.
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AUTHOR BIO:
A
successful business leader, speaker, and author, my most recent work is an
exciting novel, The Multima Scheme.
I'm
in love with the same special lady for almost five decades. In turn, we love --
and are incredibly proud of -- our daughter, our son, their spouses, and three
remarkable grandchildren.
Family,
friends, and hundreds of other wonderful people also populate my life,
repeatedly creating rewarding experiences. I’ve had all this good fortune for
many years, with reading and writing often playing integral roles.
I’ve
loved reading as long as I remember and have enjoyed writing for just as long.
For me, writing has taken many forms. Like most, it started with assigned
essays as a student and then evolved with my business career. I’ve written
letters, speeches, reports, ads, brochures, presentations, proposals, articles,
and a blog. My first book was a work of non-fiction – NEEDS Selling Solutions –
co-authored with my friend Jeff Allen.
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