The Last Change

Book excerpt: Once again Sir Mark Watson, businessman and womanizer, is the primary character of this latest novel and the fourth in the series featuring him and his complex business and private life as he embarks on yet another major change of career direction, replacing the responsibilities of being chairman of several businesses, with the challenge of buying a number of companies that he will personally own. Wheeling and dealing to make the acquisitions in spite of many pitfalls and challenges, he gradually begins to acquire a diverse range of companies while, at the same time, managing his convoluted love life, with affairs aplenty, as well as dealing with a personal health issue. But following his divorce and now having passed sixty, he is becoming disenchanted with his convoluted single lifestyle and yearns for the comfort and satisfaction of married life again.