Black Gold - Collins, A. Jay

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Résumé :
In the years following the end of the Shah's dynasty, a major petrochemical refinery is being constructed in northern Iran by the Islamic Regime. While this is good for Iran, it's not so good for the West. Enter the Organization for Reorganizing Business (ORB), led by Murray Stockman. ORB sends their senior field operative, Matthew Black, into Iran to fix the refinery problem. But this won't be an easy task. Black needs to refocus the Regime on being pro-West, a tall order that's going to require all his skills and the support of many. During significant political unrest and social upheaval, Black and the other ORB operatives on the ground, use every element at their disposal to upset the Regime's plans. Amid the rise of the Iranian working men's union movement and the birth of the Friends of Iran youth organization, ORB works to sabotage the refinery, cut the Regime's access to funds, and bring about the failure of the Revolutionary Guard. Can Stockman and his people cut Iran's ties to Russia and China and wrest control of the Iranian oil industry from the Regime before it's too late?

Biographie:
Jay is a retired professional engineer who emigrated from England to Canada in 1974 with his wife and children and now lives in White Rock. British Columbia. He has spent his working life on heavy industrial projects worldwide, including in Australia, China, Turkey, Iran, Greenland, Myanmar, the US, Central and South America, the UK and Canada. Jay has been on several boards of mining companies. For almost twenty years, Jay owned a Vancouver-based global project and construction management company focused on developing mineral processing facilities, including gold and copper. At one time they managed over four billion dollars' worth of international capital projects. Jay's industry knowledge, travel and experience in the boardroom allows him to develop storylines threading fact with the imagination of fiction. His tales are not intended to be plausible, but are intended to be interesting and thrilling, and to provide readers with fascinating tapestries of historical facts and information, rumors, unsubstantiated legend and colorful characters....