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A gripping and convincing account of the turbulent story of the global oil industry over the past decade…scorchingly topical…’The Squeeze’ provides the fascinating story behind the headlines…a first-rate account of where the oil industry is now and some useful pointers as to where it is going' Financial Times

'A gripping and convincing account of the turbulent story of the global oil industry over the past decade!scorchingly topical!'The Squeeze' provides the fascinating story behind the headlines!a first-rate account of where the oil industry is now and some useful pointers as to where it is going' Financial Times 'Reveals brilliantly the drama behind the scenes!Bower has produced a work which will be popular and which gets the broad brushstrokes right' Spectator 'Gripping!However fast-paced, Bower cleverly keeps the action in focus !(he) builds up a brilliant picture!(and) achieves an impressively seamless continuity. He skillfully depicts accountants squeezing costs, oil majors squeezing rivals, governments squeezing the industry, directors squeezing peers from the boardroom and traders squeezing each other in the market place' TLS 'A shattering critique which will leave!readers angry' Independent 'A roller-coaster account of the past 30 years of the oil industry!he has a real sense of the drama of deal-making and deal-breaking!Bower is particularly entertaining on the vast Russian oil industry' Daily Telegraph Praise for Tom Bower: 'As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping.' Daily Telegraph 'Intensively researched but coolly critical!this remains the most thorough biography we have.' Independent 'What makes this worth reading is Bower's damning indictment of Brown's main boast: his supposedly sure stewardship of the economy.' The Times 'A powerful book which poses serious questions.' James Naughtie 'Compulsively readable!essential reading.' Norman Lamont

'A gripping and convincing account of the turbulent story of the global oil industry over the past decade!scorchingly topical!'The Squeeze' provides the fascinating story behind the headlines!a first-rate account of where the oil industry is now and some useful pointers as to where it is going' Financial Times 'Reveals brilliantly the drama behind the scenes!Bower has produced a work which will be popular and which gets the broad brushstrokes right' Spectator 'Gripping!However fast-paced, Bower cleverly keeps the action in focus !(he) builds up a brilliant picture!(and) achieves an impressively seamless continuity. He skillfully depicts accountants squeezing costs, oil majors squeezing rivals, governments squeezing the industry, directors squeezing peers from the boardroom and traders squeezing each other in the market place' TLS 'A shattering critique which will leave!readers angry' Independent 'A roller-coaster account of the past 30 years of the oil industry!he has a real sense of the drama of deal-making and deal-breaking!Bower is particularly entertaining on the vast Russian oil industry' Daily Telegraph

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Tom Bower is the author of twenty-three best-selling books. In the late 1950s he travelled to communist Czechoslovakia, and while a student at the LSE he was known as 'Tommy the Red'. As a journalist, between 1969 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 he travelled across communist East Germany and spent much of his time during the 1970s reporting for BBC TV with British strikers, especially the miners led by Arthur Scargill. In 1989 he worked for three years in Russia, interviewing high-ranking Soviet intelligence officers who played the spy game against the West. He reported wars from Vietnam, the Middle East and South America, where he encountered hard-left idealists and latterday commissars. Bower's experience of myriad wars, elections, corrupt politicians and shady businessmen cured him of his Marxism, but not of his curiosity and innate scepticism. Dangerous Hero is the latest of his many bestselling and critically acclaimed books.  

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