Bøker av Uri Norwich

RUSSIAN ELECTION MEDDLING! For the past year, there's been a non-stop barrage of this headline. Everyone has heard or seen it. Surprisingly, there was no need for the meddling. It's been going on much longer than most people realize. On January 20, 2009, a new occupant had moved into the White House. The transition of power from the previous administration had been orderly and uneventful, and on the surface, seemed to move smoothly through the process as prescribed by the US Constitution. What millions of Americans couldn't know was that a few years before the new president was born, another man had been offered two lives to live. His choice would change the lives of every man, woman and child on our planet. Many famous assassinations had been left behind in the wake of his ascension. He destroyed many large individual fortunes and the economies of some countries. He could have chosen the winning numbers of any lottery ticket, but instead he chose to play Wall Street, the biggest gamble and most lucrative game of them all. Perhaps, it was his reward for surviving many hellish years and being able to come back unscathed. He then established himself as a power broker. On that very day of the inauguration, he also just happened to be in town..., and was less than a mile away from the Oval Office. There are no coincidences! There are no twists of fate! And there is nothing that just happens..., without someone orchestrating the outcome!

Only one man can't fall asleep at that late hour on board of Chinese jumbo jet heading to New York. It seems that the entire universe found peace with itself, slowly revealing unfamiliar constellations behind the window. Something is bothering him. Usually a sound sleeper, he didn't require much to drift away, but not on that night. He doesn't know what it is... Maybe, it is all just a dream...If reality can turn into bizarre fantasy, and the fantasy can morph back into reality, then a twilight transition may exist somewhere on the way. "A border patrol officer stamped my Exit Visa with a big, blue, round seal. 'Released!' I had been released from the most Evil Empire. I had been released from slavery. I had been released into the Free World! The sweetest release of them all - stateless, penniless but free! At that moment, I didn't care about tomorrow. I didn't care that I only had eighty dollars to my name, some clothes on my back, and a couple of suitcases. One thing I knew for sure I would never be a slave again."The story is written as told by a young man in his twenties, bouncing around the world as a boat set loose in a stormy sea, trying to find his place in it. He hits the biggest jackpot of his life and lets it go away so easy.The Author had lived through and experienced firsthand situations and places reflected in the book. Author lives in a New York City suburb, still enjoying every moment of novelty being a free man, even after so many years