Corporate Dragon: Executive Assassinations at their own hands

ISBN-13: 9781450558297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 478 str.

R. Anthony Schneider; Dathene Bare

Opis

The Corporate Dragon is not a living being - neither human nor animal. It's true identity is General Accounting Ledger #701-1 a/k/a the Corporate Dragon. It's mere existance in the Corporation's accounting system invites Management employees, who have any inclination toward dishonesty, to manipulate it for personal benefit. 701-1 beckons to such employees to utilize it as an untraceable method to embezzle funds from the Company. Eventually the Dragon rises up and strikes out at the perpetrators - destroying their careers and lives. The primary Protagonist, Robert Sterling Powers, is a middle aged Corporate Executive employed in a United States multi-billion dollar Commercial Finance Corporation named TMA, Inc. headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a TMA Branch Manager. In that position he is pressed into the task - by Senior TMA Management - of unraveling a multi-million dollar fraudulent scheme concocted by a few unscrupulous TMA Executives. Over a period of months he and his Fiancee, Penny Olson, travel extensively throughout the United States visiting key TMA Company Branch Offices of which there are a total of thirty six. Before the unraveling of the scheme is completed, Powers and Olson receive death threats from the perpetrators and he is physically attacked by two hired hit-men in a dimly lighted parking lot. Due to his expertise in a special form of Martial Arts he survives the attack. For his and Olson's personal security, he deems it necessary to install a highly sophisticated Electric Eye Alarm System surrounding his private residence near Minneapolis.In all there are ten perpetrators involved. One committs suicide, another suffers a fatal heart attack - and the other eight are dealt unusual and severe punishment for their sins against the Company. The Corporate Dragon is slain but leaves as it's legacy an unsolved mystery that perplexes TMA Senior Management."