.When Hollywood science celebrity Abe Wiezman invites Silicon Valley software entrepreneur Mike Gold to become CEO of his eight-year-old biotech company, Mike is intrigued. Abe's messianic belief that the company can save the world from pollution and maybe even from global warming is intoxicating. As he dives into the challenges of learning new technology and taking the company public, Mike discovers some of the downsides of running an organization built around a charismatic personality. But these management problems fade into the background when Abe starts receiving death threats. Then those...

This is the third novel in the Mike Gold Mystery Series. When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike Gold's plans for an IPO falter, his old college buddy Stew King calls out of the blue with a great offer to buy Mike's company. They meet for a quiet weekend at Mike's Napa Valley winery to negotiate the sale. But this is hardly an ordinary business deal. Mike soon discovers that the White House is behind it, the Chinese want to scuttle it, and the ecology of a million square miles of ocean may be at stake. Then the body of a beautiful, seductive woman is found in the vineyard and Mike is arrested...

Protect your crown jewels. Attack theirs. How do companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM protect themselves against strategic competitive threats and grow their revenue and profit at the same time? In this groundbreaking book, Silicon Valley veteran Phil Bookman reveals the strategy they use to divert their competitor's resources away from the product that threatens them. This book introduces the Strategic Competitive Defense Planning Process. Step-by-step instructions walk you through assessing competitive threats, selecting the ones to focus on strategically, and planning defenses against...

It's the food that nourishes tech startups. O-P-M. Other People's Money. To many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, it's known irreverently as opium, because once you get on it, it's hard to kick the habit. Silicon Valley software entrepreneur Mike Gold is an expert at using this opium to fund his startups. Mike is between ventures and getting antsy when he's offered an intriguing proposition: start up a new company funded by billionaire tech icon Barry Samson. But when Samson is found murdered, and Gold's friends start disappearing, the FBI targets him as a suspect. To protect his family, his...

Pizza, technology, murder and scandal Zack Zander, billionaire CEO and founder of MySlice, is on top of the world. Silicon Valley's hottest tech company, MySlice is an ingenious marriage of a pizza chain with social media. But then Zack and three senior executives are savagely murdered onboard his yacht. Lounging in a villa in Maui, Mike Gold is asked to take over as MySlice CEO. He relishes the challenges of rebuilding the executive team, calming dismayed employees and soothing the financial markets. But the murders don't stop, and as the body count climbs, Mike wonders who he can trust and...

A DEADLY WEB OF VILLAINY AND DECEIT March 19, 2003: The invasion of Baghdad is imminent. Saddam Hussein withdraws over a billion dollars in cash from the Iraqi Central Bank. Within days, the U.S. Army recovers most of the loot. But not all of it. January, 2004: A U.S. Army intelligence investigator is assigned to probe reports of appalling abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Army guards at Abu Ghraib prison. This leads to numerous courts-martial convictions and other disciplinary actions, along with worldwide condemnation of both the atrocities and the complicity of top U.S. government officials. A...

DEADLY PLOTS OF GREED AND DUPLICITY June 1944: Allied forces in England are poised to launch Operation Overlord, the massive invasion of Nazi occupied France. In Normandy, French Resistance operatives Doris Cohen, alias Colette Blanchette, codename Sparrow, and Pierre Dufort, codename Hawk, implement an audacious plan to weaken Nazi forces on D-Day. March 2016: Henri Legrand, leader of French industrial giant Dufort Engineering, confronts tech CEO Mike Gold in his Silicon Valley office with an outlandish claim. He says that billionaire Pierre Dufort, now 95 years old, is Mike's real...

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE WORLD Silicon Valley billionaire Mike Gold has an audacious idea: Provide everyone on Earth cheap, clean energy by beaming solar power from the Moon. He wants to fund the development and startup costs for this endeavor through donated funds, including a billion dollars of his own money. On the other side of the world, the secretive ruling council of the Saudi Royal Family, the Sab'a, decrees that Mike Gold is the most dangerous man in the world. They instruct the man they call Scorpion to declare all-out but covert war on Mike Gold. He must annihilate Mike Gold...