Conor Woodman Bücher

Conor Woodman, Analyst in einem großen amerikanischen Unternehmen in der Londoner City, führt ein Leben, von dem viele träumen: glänzende Karrierechancen, üppiges Gehalt, großzügiges Apartment. Doch die sterile Welt der modernen Finanzzentren stößt ihn immer mehr ab - und so bricht er auf zu einer Weltreise, die gleichzeitig ein atemberaubendes Selbstexperiment ist. Conor Woodman, der gewohnt ist, vom Computer aus Millionenbeträge auf Knopfdruck zu verschieben, tritt an gegen die gewieftesten Händler in aller Welt: Teppichhändler in Marokko, Kameltreiber im Sudan und Pferdehändler in Kirgisien. Er handelt mit Kaffee in Sambia, Jade in China und Rotwein in Südafrika. Die Regeln sind klar: Um seine Reise zu finanzieren, muss er genauso geschickt handeln wie die Einheimischen. Dazu muss er in kürzester Zeit die gerissenen Tricks der Händler durchschauen, die ihn mit herzzerreißenden Geschichten zum Kauf verführen wollen, und darf sich nicht von windigen Geschäftemachern herunterhandeln lassen. Sechs Monate später kehrt Conor Woodman zurück: mit einer Menge Geld, vielen neuen Freunden und interessanten Erfahrungen, wie die Wirtschaft wirklich funktioniert.

The second incredible thriller in the Matt Mason series: based in the high- octane, high-stakes world of the special forces.

"Matt 'Mace' Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong. Pulling at the strings of the local political scene is not only the local warlord who is destined to become Mace's nemesis, General Ruak Shahlai, but hardbitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who controls a whole international network to her advantage. As well as his own team, Mace has to work, initially unwillingly, with female CIA Agent (and Islamic scholar) Redford. Together they will need to prevent an attack that would spark a regional war and create the largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen."--Publisher

Why the world's poor continue to lose out in the global market -- and what can be done about it. How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And, if so, are charity and fair trade initiatives the only way forward? In Unfair Trade Conor Woodman traces a range of products back to their source to uncover who precisely is benefitting and who is losing out. He goes diving with lobster fishermen in Nicaragua who are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables of the US well stocked. He ventures into war-torn Congo to find out what the developed world's insatiable demand for tin means for local miners. And he risks falling foul of the authorities in Laos as he covertly visits the country's burgeoning rubber plantations, established to supply Chinese factories that in turn supply the West with consumer goods. In the process, he tests accepted economic wisdom on the best way to create a fairer world -- and suggests a simpler but potentially far more radical solution.

An economist sells his house and returns to the fundamentals of trade by engaging in buying and selling real goods in the world's oldest markets.

Over the past two years, Conor Woodman has travelled the globe on the trail of the world's most profitable, most unpleasant criminals. In Sharks, Conor leads us through the underworlds of cities such as Bogota and Jerusalem, unravelling the stories and uncovering the characters behind them. Action-packed adrenaline journalism is Conor's signature, and it's exactly what he delivers here. Sharks is his most daring reportage to date, reliving how he put aside his safety in the course of one breathtaking encounter after another, assembling a picture of a world you never knew existed.

From the host of Scam City (National Geographic, Netflix) comes a hair-raising investigation into the criminal underbelly of the world's greatest cities