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Once again Sir Mark Watson, businessman and womanizer, is the primary character of this latest novel and the fourth in the series featuring him and his complex business and private life as he embarks on yet another major change of career direction, replacing the responsibilities of being chairman of several businesses, with the challenge of buying a number of companies that he will personally own. Wheeling and dealing to make the acquisitions ...

Once again Sir Mark Watson, businessman and womanizer, is the primary character of this latest novel and the fourth in the series featuring him and his complex business and private life as he embarks on yet another major change of career direction, replacing the responsibilities of being chairman of several businesses, with the challenge of buying a number of companies that he will personally own. Wheeling and dealing to make the acquisitions ...

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A story of two ambitious executives each fighting to secure the one big job that has unexpectedly become available following their Managing Director's sudden announcement that he is relinquishing his role to spend more time with his wife who is suffering from a life threatening illness. Both executives are utterly determined to successfully gain the promotion.Caroline, the attractive Marketing Director deploys all her feminine wiles andcharms ...

This is a story of one man's ambition. Mark Watson while still a schoolboy sees his father's business destroyed by the bombastic industrialist Sir Charles Houghton and vows to find a way to avenge his father when he grows up. The story tells of Mark's birth, his early years and his schooling while alongside charting the progression of his father's business from its humble beginnings then through its growth and expansion phases until as a resul...

A SURROGATE DILEMMA tells the story of Andrew Noble, heir to the Noble Speciality Foods business. After leaving university he spends a year travelling the world then returns to the UK and takes up a position in Marketing in an electronics firm where over the next few years he builds his career eventually becoming Marketing Manager. But after that period of time there he believes that he is now ready to enter his family business in a position o...

A SURROGATE DILEMMA tells the story of Andrew Noble, heir to the Noble Speciality Foods business. After leaving university he spends a year travelling the world then returns to the UK and takes up a position in Marketing in an electronics firm where over the next few years he builds his career eventually becoming Marketing Manager. But after that period of time there he believes that he is now ready to enter his family business in a position o...

THE END IS ALWAYS FINAL The fifth and final story in the quintology about Sir Mark Watson, international businessman and serial womaniser. Having extracted himself from the rigours and pressures of managing publically quoted companies on the Stock Exchange and now having his own portfolio of companies that he has bought and personally owns, Mark embarks on the latest and most complex acquisition of his long and varied career. A moribund multi-...

THE END IS ALWAYS FINAL The fifth and final story in the quintology about Sir Mark Watson, international businessman and serial womaniser. Having extracted himself from the rigours and pressures of managing publically quoted companies on the Stock Exchange and now having his own portfolio of companies that he has bought and personally owns, Mark embarks on the latest and most complex acquisition of his long and varied career. A moribund multi-...

The Track In A Forest Author Mike Upton's 12th novel is his 2nd book of ghost stories. Five separate erotic tales of ghosts and unusual occurrences all set in his home county of Norfolk. Are ghosts real? Do they exist? Billy: An old ghostly fisherman long dead appears to recently divorced Theo in the small sailing harbour where he keeps his own boat. But can he convince either Hannah with whom he is having a torrid affair and then Patsy o...

The Track In A Forest Author Mike Upton's 12th novel is his 2nd book of ghost stories. Five separate erotic tales of ghosts and unusual occurrences all set in his home county of Norfolk. Are ghosts real? Do they exist? Billy: An old ghostly fisherman long dead appears to recently divorced Theo in the small sailing harbour where he keeps his own boat. But can he convince either Hannah with whom he is having a torrid affair and then Patsy o...

THE BETA FILE is set within the UK pharmaceutical industry where an employee of Furrina Pharmaceuticals is concerned at some of the immoral practices being undertaken by the company in order to rush a new drug onto the market. Worried about these disreputable activities he contacts a TV station and offers to become a whistleblower to help expose such activities. Kim Harding the senior investigator and lead reporter for TV-12 worried about t...

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW explores the concept of whether Ghosts really do exist? The four stories are all quite different but each deals with the apparent physical manifestation of a being from 'another place'. Ghosts? Maybe? * Jeff is out walking his dog in the snow through some woods when he meets a young girl. Who is she? Why is she there? * Russell takes a career break from his job to write a book but he meets Alice and after a passionate aff...

ARROW OF TRUTH is a "who-dun-it" and tells the story of how William Hardy, the third generation owner and Chairman of a family manufacturing business, struggles to keep his company going in the face of increased demands from his customers and ruthess competition from his competitors, as well as suffering arson attacks, bomb threats and blackmail letters from an unknown assailant. But as he finds business life more and more difficult he realise...

WINNERS NEVER LOSE is the second book about Mark Watson who once again is ruthlessly wheeling and dealing but this time in the Oil and Pharmaceutical Industries. Still married to Abi although now with a secret son conceived with his mistress Samantha, he cheats on both women as he embarks on various affairs whilst callously pursuing his business career. The novel follows his progression through the Oil Industry before he is head hunted into th...

The Boss is a work of fiction and Mike Upton's fourth novel.The book is a challenging story set in the world of business and tells how Helen Buckley an accountant by training and profession, attempts to fight her way to the top in a highly competitive and difficult corporate world controlled and dominated by men.It follows her early life, her many love affairs, her marriage and the reasons for its failure, as well as charting her progress as s...

A TWIST IN THE TALE is a book containing four different stories - but what each story has in common is that they all have an unusual and unexpected ending. A final unforseen twist - hence the title. The first - SEA DEEP- tells the story of Pete an advertising man in London who is suddenly made redundant. Finding it difficult to get another job in the world of advertising he embarks on an adventure to fulfill an ambition which subsequently comp...