Confessions of a Corporate Centurion -- Tales of International Adventures" by Gordon S. Riess.

A highly enjoyable collection of true tales about the author's amusing escapades and risky exploits while living, working, and traveling around the world.

(PRWEB) December 4, 2004 -- This delightful little award-winning book is a collection of true stories about extraordinary foreign travels, adventures, and experiences, told with wit and humor. It is great fun to read.

The author lucidly describes his fascinating dealings with an Italian Mafia Don, a French bigamist, a German counterfeiter, a Vatican official, a Spanish smuggler, a Persian assassin, and many other colorful characters.

Each of the 27 chapters of Confessions of a Corporate Centurion" is a separate short story, relating of one of his wifes or his own personal adventures and escapades during their 30 years living and working in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

The stories take place in many different countries and include people of very diverse cultures, customs, and practices. The varied experiences were strange and exciting. Some involved the element of danger. One newspaper called Riess A businessman James Bond."

The tales are enjoyable and entertaining reading, but the messages are also educational and instructive. They describe the unique complications of doing business in strange environments and the challenges facing Americans who have to conduct business, make a home, and raise a family in many different countries. A treat for armchair travelers as well as experienced globetrotters.

The author is a former senior executive of Ford Motor Company and International Paper Company, who was responsible for those corporations subsidiaries and affiliates in Europe and the Middle East. He also was Executive Vice President of Cinema International Corporation (C.I.C.), the worlds largest international motion picture company. C.I.C. handles all Paramount, Universal, and M-G-M business outside the United States and Canada. Gordon Riess has founded or co-founded five start-up entrepreneurial companies. He is today a popular lecturer, consultant, and adjunct professor of international business.

Confessions" may be purchased in paperback or downloaded off the Internet from the distributor, Author House, www.authorhouse.com, or ordered toll free at (800) 839-8640 or (812) 339-6000, fax (812) 339-6554. It may also be ordered through any bookstore or purchased from any Internet bookseller such as www.amazon.com, www.borders.com, etc.

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