How do you build a multi-billion dollar international business?

And then how do you save one when it seems like all the cards are stacked against you?

Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building--and then saving--a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill's Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes out-landish parts of international business.

From a time of significant prosperity to a period of domestic and international finan-cial hardship, we have Bob's...