Michael Fjetland

"Better Times Ahead" is a true story that is an international action adventure story based on real events. Time wrap around the world. Ends with "Agenda for American Greatness" - how America can win the high tech, space age 21st century.

Think Ben Affleck (ARGO) doing what the author did at the beginning of his career in the Middle East -- and Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) doing what the author did as an older, global entrepreneur who dodged gangsters in Europe (using an unusual disguise) and conducted child kidnapping negotiations in Syria.

What if you grew up in a small town but suddenly found yourself being sent to strange lands, witnessing fraud, suicide, historic revolutions and wild orgy parties in places like London and Houston? Then getting laid off with no severance pay? Running out of money in Bangkok. Smuggling himself into China on the "Night Train from Shanghai."  Investigating the death of an American on an Nigeria offshore rig. All that, and more, happened to the author …

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1 - Toto, This Sure Ain't Kansas                                 
Chapter 2 Nostradamus Never Predicted This                                                                      
Chapter 3 - The Layoff: Night Train from Shanghai
Chapter 4 - Broke in Bangkok
Chapter 5 - Time Travel, Jet Lag and African Voodoo                                                         

Chapter 6 - Indiana Jones Never Tried This  

Chapter 7 - Is This East Texas or the Middle East?                                                           

Chapter 8 - Predicting 9/11 and Running Against “The Hammer”                                         
Chapter 9 - Agenda for American Greatness