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Revenge Of The CEO
What would you do if you were framed and sentenced to twenty years in an Asian prison?
Would it make any difference if the heinous crimes that you’d gotten away with carried far longer sentences?
Would knowing that your actions led directly to the suicide of your financial controller prick your conscience?
Blind hate kept Douglas Aspine alive in Changi Prison. He had no conscience or compassion for those he had hurt, only the lust for revenge. Would this evil man succeed in bringing down those who had framed him?
Would it make any difference if the heinous crimes that you’d gotten away with carried far longer sentences?
Would knowing that your actions led directly to the suicide of your financial controller prick your conscience?
Blind hate kept Douglas Aspine alive in Changi Prison. He had no conscience or compassion for those he had hurt, only the lust for revenge. Would this evil man succeed in bringing down those who had framed him?
- GenresFiction
226 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 2, 2015
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About the author
Peter Ralph
22 books29 followersPeter Ralph is a former ‘big four’ chartered accountant who specialized in corporate reconstructions, recoveries, and liquidations. In the reconstructions, he acted as a surgeon chopping away the excess fat. In the recoveries, he was like a lifeguard giving mouth to mouth. In the liquidations, he was a combination of funeral director and forensic investigator.
As a forensic investigator, Peter spent a large part of his career investigating the reasons for corporate collapses and testifying in the courts.
Later he became CEO of one of his recovery clients, a heavy transport equipment designer, and manufacturer that he successfully floated as a public company.
He has a background well suited to writing financial thrillers. In 2012, he was highly commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards, for his novel about unconventional gas, Dirty Fracking Business.
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As a forensic investigator, Peter spent a large part of his career investigating the reasons for corporate collapses and testifying in the courts.
Later he became CEO of one of his recovery clients, a heavy transport equipment designer, and manufacturer that he successfully floated as a public company.
He has a background well suited to writing financial thrillers. In 2012, he was highly commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards, for his novel about unconventional gas, Dirty Fracking Business.
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May 23, 2019
Peter Ralph has continued the story of the CEO, Douglas Aspine. Has the time in Changi Prison made him into a better person? Check out Revenge of the CEO to find out. Put on a pot of coffee, cancel all appointments for the next twenty-four hours and forget about sleeping. Get ready for a thrilling experience interacting with amazing characters. Pick up or download a Peter Ralph thriller today!
May 25, 2017
You know that old story, a dad comes home, sees something broken, maybe a lamp, and hits his kid.
Kid says, “I didn’t do it.”
Dad says, “Doesn’t matter. I hit you for something you did that I don’t know about.”
This is no joke to Douglas Aspine, who’s already spent eight years of his twenty year sentence in Changi Prison, with seven to go before parole, not for the crimes he committed, but the one crime he didn’t.
He’s rotting away in the Singapore jail, growing older in dog years, set up with drugs planted in his suitcase, and lucky not to have been put to death. A severely reprehensible white collar criminal, he financially ruined thousands, driving at least one man to suicide. His crimes and lack of punishment drove normally nice people to set him up. He may have been punished for something he didn’t do, but there was plenty of justification for putting him in prison. Of course, he didn’t see it that way.
Using his ample resources to form an alliance with fellow prisoners as corrupt, vicious and deserving of prison time as he is, he escapes his hell hole hell bent on revenge.
But not just any revenge. Murder’s too good for the people who put him in prison. Once he’s free, he travels around the world, spending a fortune, to make sure that their worst nightmares come true. Working in secret, he turns their lives into their own prisons by taking away whatever they love or value most.
The writing is fast, clean and crisp, full of twists and turns you won’t see coming. I’m not going to reveal more, the plot just too good to spoil. All I know is that Peter Ralph is a terrific writer, probably a very nice person, but since he’s the one who thought up this diabolical plot, I wouldn’t want to cross him. He certainly created a character I can’t forget.
Kid says, “I didn’t do it.”
Dad says, “Doesn’t matter. I hit you for something you did that I don’t know about.”
This is no joke to Douglas Aspine, who’s already spent eight years of his twenty year sentence in Changi Prison, with seven to go before parole, not for the crimes he committed, but the one crime he didn’t.
He’s rotting away in the Singapore jail, growing older in dog years, set up with drugs planted in his suitcase, and lucky not to have been put to death. A severely reprehensible white collar criminal, he financially ruined thousands, driving at least one man to suicide. His crimes and lack of punishment drove normally nice people to set him up. He may have been punished for something he didn’t do, but there was plenty of justification for putting him in prison. Of course, he didn’t see it that way.
Using his ample resources to form an alliance with fellow prisoners as corrupt, vicious and deserving of prison time as he is, he escapes his hell hole hell bent on revenge.
But not just any revenge. Murder’s too good for the people who put him in prison. Once he’s free, he travels around the world, spending a fortune, to make sure that their worst nightmares come true. Working in secret, he turns their lives into their own prisons by taking away whatever they love or value most.
The writing is fast, clean and crisp, full of twists and turns you won’t see coming. I’m not going to reveal more, the plot just too good to spoil. All I know is that Peter Ralph is a terrific writer, probably a very nice person, but since he’s the one who thought up this diabolical plot, I wouldn’t want to cross him. He certainly created a character I can’t forget.
September 10, 2018
Peter Ralph is a master at putting words together to keep his audience attention. Revenge of the CEO is book 2 covering the climb and fall and revenge of Douglas Aspine. In the first book we meet Douglas Aspine as an aspiring, greedy, self centered person whose only goal in life is make money at the expense of everyone else, even family. The first book ends with Douglas being arrested in Singapore for drug smuggling.
Eight years later he plans he escape and revenge of those who he feels resulted in his downfall. The book is well written and shows how conniving one person can be ( I hope that Peter Ralph isn't like that) in taking steps to hide himself from those who know him and the deft plans he has made to achieve his goal of revenge.
Going further in the review of this book would only give away the plot, the revenges planned and the ultimate finish. Thank you Peter for another great book. Looking forward to read your other novels.
Eight years later he plans he escape and revenge of those who he feels resulted in his downfall. The book is well written and shows how conniving one person can be ( I hope that Peter Ralph isn't like that) in taking steps to hide himself from those who know him and the deft plans he has made to achieve his goal of revenge.
Going further in the review of this book would only give away the plot, the revenges planned and the ultimate finish. Thank you Peter for another great book. Looking forward to read your other novels.
July 19, 2017
When I finished reading the CEO, I saw the Revenge of the CEO was available to download on my Kindle. I had to read it. No way, with his hidden ill gotten money hidden away, the monster had protection for 8 years in the Singapore prison. We were supposed to feel sorry for him that he was put there by being set up. Then he was able to escape from a prison that was so up on modern security there was no way for an escape. Now he is loose and getting revenge on all those he had wronged and worked to put him in the prison. Amazing what money can buy. I quickly read with dread that he would not be caught. Again this was a great read.
May 13, 2023
The bad guy is still very bad. You must read this one to find out how it ends. All the books were mind boggling. They were very entertaing, made you mad and and twisted your mind with many scams and controling of people with big money changing hands. Very thought provoking!
January 26, 2015
The man I love to hate is back, literally with a vengeance. Douglas Aspine is even more despicable in this book than he was in The CEO, maybe because he’s spent the last eight years in a Singapore prison. The story starts with the horrors of that prison, and although it moves on to Hilton hotels in Bangkok and Melbourne, the horror never lets up. Aspine’s schemes are even more convoluted and cruel. Even hardened gangsters are disgusted by what he will do. So again the momentum of the plot is driven by the desire to see him fail, but he’s remarkably clever and has fifteen million dollars in a Cayman Islands bank account to fund his dastardly deeds. And the people who are his targets, although not all totally innocent, are shown with enough sensitivity and depth that the reader comes to care about them and is emotionally caught up in their trials as one after another is snared in Aspine’s net. So the tension stays high. The writing is simple but competent with a tight plot and short, fast chapters. It’s a gripping read.
I was given a review copy of this book because I enjoyed the first one so much.
I was given a review copy of this book because I enjoyed the first one so much.
May 27, 2015
Aspine, the CEO of a looted corporation, escapes from an Oriental jail and seeks revenge on those who set him up. The protagonist of the story is anything but a hero; he was setup by those he defrauded, however he himself is a criminal and a putrid piece of pig poop. The way he goes about escaping and setting up his revenge plots is chilling but fascinating. My only complaints are that all the characters (mostly Australians) use the same dated slang. No one uses the phrase "Far Out" any more, do they? Yet Muller and Aspine both use this phrase. Plus once the plot moves into resolution mode, things happen a little too swiftly; as if the author had grown impatient.
If you are looking for quasi-romance novel pablum a la Rizzoli and Isles, move along, there is nothing here for you. But if you like nasty people elbowing each other along the boards, this is a solid effort.
If you are looking for quasi-romance novel pablum a la Rizzoli and Isles, move along, there is nothing here for you. But if you like nasty people elbowing each other along the boards, this is a solid effort.
February 7, 2016
This book is a sequel to the author's earlier work The CEO. Douglas Aspine is the evil CEO who escapes prison to wreak revenge on those individuals who fought against him earlier. While the storyline was interesting, I agree with another reviewer that the plot moved too quickly as if the author lost interest in the book. The ending was too sudden and there were a number of plot lines that did not have a satisfactory conclusion. I may take a look at the author's other business related books – – the CEO series were an easy read.
May 14, 2015
Sinister plots and actions against the people that put Douglas in jail. What he dreams up to get revenge is mind boggling only to make one mistake that costs him.
Good, fast read.
Good, fast read.
May 27, 2015
This is the third Peter Ralph book I am reading. I enjoy his books.
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