Russ Crawford

Limit Up (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1972, hundreds of thousands of Soviet Union citizens unknowingly faced imminent starvation as parched wheat crops withered from drought in the Volga Plains. Mikhail Fisenko, a veteran Russian grain trader, faced US President Nixon's government and an oligopoly of powerful, sophisticated global grain trading firms to avoid one of the greatest disasters in Russian history. The lives of many people and his own career were at stake.

The suspenseful adventure delivers international intrigue, tracking the Soviet agent across the globe from Moscow to Minneapolis, Geneva to Memphis and Chicago to the plains of Eastern Europe as he strategized, maneuvered and negotiated deals. Fisenko's fast-paced, high stakes quest included dealings with many skilled veteran grain traders as well as an aspiring Cargill Inc. rookie, Jim McCrea, as he negotiated the largest grain deal in history - without bankrupting his national treasury.

Wheat trade became the new "battlefield" in the midst of the Soviet/American Cold War conflict, as the Russian attempted to secretly negotiate the largest deal in commodity trading history. This single, seminal event, later coined as the "Great Grain Robbery", changed global food prices forever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Agrinomics Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781999280536
• Artikelnr.: 63493293

Autorenporträt

Russ Crawford is a fifty year veteran of Canadian agriculture. From a commodity trader for Cargill Ltd in his early years to a country operations manager for the Alberta Wheat Pool and, finally, an agricultural consultant and author, Russ has a lifelong connection to Canada's grain industry. "Legacy" follows his first self published works, Limit Up, a story of the Great Grain Robbery in 1972 and a biography of a Japanese immigrant and Canadian hero called Canadian Samurai. Russ lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his wife of 47 years, enjoying the pleasure of three sons' families which include their wives and seven individually amazing grandchildren.