By Rich
Have any of my blog readers watched the HBO series Succession?
In addition to blogging, for the last couple of years I have been working on two manuscripts that I published to Kindle this week, because my family history is essentially the real-world version of the Succession TV series. And yes, as difficult as it may be to believe, every word of these narratives is 100% true.
First up is The Poisoned Well. My discovery of a financial scandal in my immediate family was one of the top 10 most read stories for Norway’s largest newspaper last year, and in this volume I tell it in its entirety:
Link to full details: https://a.co/d/7MUMRMV
The story was such big news because my maternal grandfather was a super controversial figure whose billion-dollar empire nearly collapsed the entire Norwegian economy when it imploded in the 1970s. So I decided to write the first biography about him ever written in English!
In this second book, follow along as he does great things for his country, but takes massive financial risks that catch up with him and eventually gets turned in to the government by his own daughter for a huge tax fraud he had been hiding. After his death, his creditors chase his heirs’ shell corporations and secret trusts all over the globe trying to recover hundreds of millions of dollars he had hid in tax havens while the heirs live it up in Sardinia, London, and Monte Carlo. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Full details here: https://a.co/d/0V8kvGg
Happy weekend reading for those who are interested!