Conor Woodman Livres

The second incredible thriller in the Matt Mason series: based in the high- octane, high-stakes world of the special forces.

"Matt 'Mace' Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong. Pulling at the strings of the local political scene is not only the local warlord who is destined to become Mace's nemesis, General Ruak Shahlai, but hardbitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who controls a whole international network to her advantage. As well as his own team, Mace has to work, initially unwillingly, with female CIA Agent (and Islamic scholar) Redford. Together they will need to prevent an attack that would spark a regional war and create the largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen."--Publisher

Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right – trading Sudanese camels for Zambian coffee, coffee for South African red wine and then off to China to buy jade with the proceeds – he’ll return six months later with a lot of money, some new friends and a whole raft of brilliant tall tales. Whether trading teak or tea, surfboards or seafood, Conor goes head-to-head with the best operators in the world’s most hotly-contested markets. But will years of experience as a business analyst mean anything when he is suspected of being a spy? And can London’s financial bear pit prepare him for a horde of vodka-fuelled horse traders on the plains of central Asia? Part Undercover Economist, part Apprentice challenge, Around the World in 80 Trades offers an exciting insight into the human story behind the money in our pockets, and reminds us that making a living is about exactly that – living.

Why the world's poor continue to lose out in the global market -- and what can be done about it. How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And, if so, are charity and fair trade initiatives the only way forward? In Unfair Trade Conor Woodman traces a range of products back to their source to uncover who precisely is benefitting and who is losing out. He goes diving with lobster fishermen in Nicaragua who are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables of the US well stocked. He ventures into war-torn Congo to find out what the developed world's insatiable demand for tin means for local miners. And he risks falling foul of the authorities in Laos as he covertly visits the country's burgeoning rubber plantations, established to supply Chinese factories that in turn supply the West with consumer goods. In the process, he tests accepted economic wisdom on the best way to create a fairer world -- and suggests a simpler but potentially far more radical solution.

An economist sells his house and returns to the fundamentals of trade by engaging in buying and selling real goods in the world's oldest markets.

Over the past two years, Conor Woodman has travelled the globe on the trail of the world's most profitable, most unpleasant criminals. In Sharks, Conor leads us through the underworlds of cities such as Bogota and Jerusalem, unravelling the stories and uncovering the characters behind them. Action-packed adrenaline journalism is Conor's signature, and it's exactly what he delivers here. Sharks is his most daring reportage to date, reliving how he put aside his safety in the course of one breathtaking encounter after another, assembling a picture of a world you never knew existed.

From the host of Scam City (National Geographic, Netflix) comes a hair-raising investigation into the criminal underbelly of the world's greatest cities