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During the Mexican Revolution, a penniless Norwegian and a drifting Irishman meet in an El Paso bar and are hired by a Pittsburgh con-man to fix a gold mine in Mexico with parts which, they discover too late, purposely don’t fit.  The Norwegian is focused on fixing the mine and needs the money to propose to his girl in El Paso. The Irishman is focused on the local women, is fresh from Ireland’s bloody Easter Uprising, and needs to redeem a painful guilt and find a new life. They both are at gunpoint to perform or not perform. Their mutual distrust fades in the face of guns from the warring sides and they must work together to survive and escape back to Texas. Complicating their mission is a mysterious black-suited man selling guns to both sides in the Mexican war, part of Germany’s intrigue to keep America out of World War I-and a German and Brit are there to spy on each other. El Paso is far away.  Based on a true story.

Title: Dos Gringos
Author: Frederick R. Andresen, a 1958 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management, specializes in general business management, marketing, entrepreneurship and relationship building in Russia and other emerging markets.
Price: $11.08
ISBN: 978-1432746636
Publisher: Outskirts Press (April 9, 2010)
Description: Paperback, 170 pages
Information: www.amazon.com

Thunderbird graduate Frederick Andresen went to Russia in 1991 amid the chaos of the collapsing Soviet Union and the promising dawn of a free-market economy. His goal was to create a telecom company, but he quickly learned that he could not do it until he came to understand the evolving Russian mindset. “Although Russia is in a great state of change, the effects of a thousand years of history are not erased in a decade or two — if ever,” he writes in “Walking on Ice: An American Businessman in Russia.”

Title: Walking on Ice: An American Businessman in Russia
Author: Frederick R. Andresen, a 1958 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management, specializes in general business management, marketing, entrepreneurship and relationship building in Russia and other emerging markets.
Endorsement: This book “is mandatory reading for all who contemplate a tour of duty whether government or business in Russia or who have worked there … it brings back memories and reality. With insight, understanding, and a rare degree of humor, Fred Andresen tells us about working with the Russians,” Richard Weden, general director, American Express Russia, 1995 to 2004.
ISBN: 978-1432713522
Publisher: Outskirts Press (September 2007)
Information: www.fandresen.com