J M S Macfarlane

A fictional but true-to-life, behind-the-scenes account of commercial espionage, criminal fraud, corporate greed and legal chicanery, set against a backdrop of billion-dollar claims, international catastrophes, the highest courts in London and New York, the largest global companies over six continents, the best lawyers and the security services : based on true events and combining the styles of Grisham and Le Carre with realistic commercial criminal investigations, court scenes in the British and American courts and a description of the action taking place in London, New York, Athens and internationally : "Six months after the Falklands War ended in the early eighties, a young Englishman, Robert Renfrew-Ashby, was working as an underwriter at the Texas Alamo Fire & Guaranty Company in Houston. He'd been sent there two years earlier by his father's company, Plantation, to learn about the American market : his father was Texas Fire's main trading partner in London."