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Call No: Fic Cha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dale Hunter Volume: 3Summary Note: The Dale Hunter Crime Thriller Novels are an explosive mix of crime, cash and computers in the 1980s. Entrepreneurs face challenges every day. It's hard to be a hero. MERGER MANIAC is the third novel in the Dale Hunter Series. It is a dramatic and suspenseful story of how Dale Hunter is trying to survive against competitive threats in the rapidly evolving computer business of the 1980s and avoid being forced into crime and corruption with the Montreal Mafia. Hunter is looking for merger or acquisition partners when he's suddenly approached by the aggressive and violent Montreal Mafia to participate in their money laundering schemes. Hunter has to walk a dangerous tightrope between co-operating to protect his business and his family and going to jail for criminal activity himself.
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2018., 146452 Canada Inc. Call No: Fic Cha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dale Hunter Volume: 1Summary Note: No Easy Money “You never win playing by the rules.” Entrepreneurs face challenges every day from inside the business and from the world around them. It’s hard to be a hero. This is the story of an entrepreneur who wants to win and not play too far outside the rules. Dale Hunter is a young entrepreneur in Montreal running a successful business in the 1980’s world of personal computers. He’s having fun and making money until the bad guys arrive. Now he has to try to survive without playing by gangster rules. It will require courage and creativity and the support of some new friends. While fighting off the criminals, he still has to manage challenges from his employees and customers, the bank and his partners and his two suppliers in Korea and Taiwan. He has to make deals with them all to stay alive. It starts with a demand for protection money and threats of violence to his family. Hunter agrees to make payments to a gangster named Jacques Talbot. But the pressure increases as Talbot squeezes him for more. Hunter decides to call the cops. That’s a mistake and the criminals raise their demands and the threats to his family. Hunter makes a deal with Frank the Fixer, a tough young Somalian refugee who now works on both sides of the law in Montreal. He can be more creative than the cops, but his first attempt to take out Talbot makes matters worse. Hunter tries to deal with the gangsters himself and only digs himself in deeper again. Frank and Hunter decide the solution is to raise the stakes with an introduction to the Montreal Mafia who will take care of the other gangsters. Hunter also appeals to his banker, his partners and his suppliers for help, but he is still not safe from the gangsters. He’s now caught between the first gang of thugs and the Mafia who are at war with them. Somebody is going to get killed. Dale Hunter may never get back to business as usual.
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2019., Adult, Uncle Ralph's Publishing Empire Call No: Fic Cha Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dale Hunter Volume: 2Summary Note: Dale Hunter is back in business, but so is Gino Boncanno. Hunter is a young entrepreneur running a successful business in Montreal and Boston in the 1980s world of personal computers. He previously escaped disaster and a murder attempt by the gangster, Gino Boncanno. Hunter’s friend, Frank the Fixer, managed to stop Boncanno and put him out of business. Now Boncanno wants revenge. Dale Hunter is oblivious to the new threats as he gets dragged into a smuggling scheme with Sammy Wong, his business partner in Boston. Wong is threatened by the Triads of Taiwan and forced to meet their demands. Hunter calls on Frank the Fixer again to intervene. Hunter introduces the New York Mafia to extricate Dale and Sammy from the Triads. The complications and threats of violence escalate. Dale has to deal with them all to stay alive and get back to business as usual. It may be simple, but it’s never easy.
