Bøker av Norman Bacal

FINALIST 2021 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDSAccidental death or perfectly plotted murder?Tal Neilson is slowly losing his mind. He's convinced his dead father Geri has been murdered, but no one believes him. Geri's voice in his head is screaming for revenge. Is the voice real or a product of Tal's addiction? Can Tal ignore his widowed mother's attraction to Geri's business partner?At stake: Tal's legacy, a billion-dollar drug empire that Geri built and that his murderer is trying to steal.The only person Tal can trust is his lover Ophelia, except she harbors a secret tied to family obsession scaling three generations. Born to serve and protect Tal. Trained to kill.Sixty years connect two families from Nazi-occupied Denmark to modern Manhattan in an epic of love, deception, and sacrifice. You won't be able to put it down.Second in the Shakespeare Modern Mysteries."Ophelia is a fast- paced international thriller, a winning tale from a strong new talent on the scene." -Robert Rotenberg, international bestselling author of Downfall"A new fascinating murder mystery from an exceptionally fine author!" -Grady Harp, Amazon top 50 reviewer"The characters are intriguing, the plot is thick and twisted, and the pages fly by in a blur."

Heenan Blaikie was one of Canada's leading law firms that boasted 1,100 employees and once had two former prime ministers on its staff -- Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien. When it collapsed in February 2014, lawyers across Canada and the business community were stunned. What went wrong? Why did so many lawyers run for the exit? How did it implode? What is it that holds professional partnerships together?Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONEThis is the story of the rise and fall of a great company by the ultimate insider, Norman Bacal, who served as managing partner until a year before the firm's demise. Breakdown takes readers into the boardroom offices during the heady growth of a legal empire built from the ground up over 40 years. We see how after a change of leadership tensions erupted between the Toronto and Montreal offices, and between the hard-driving lawyers themselves. It is a story about the extraordinary fragility of the legal partnership, but it's also a classic business story, a cautionary tale of the perils of ignoring a firm's culture and vision.