Victor Bellini: 15 books

This is a set of five biographical stories in chronological order in this book. They summarizes my business career in five different companies, starting with Nortel Networks (then known as Northern Electric). I believe that each story is of some significance to those who aspire to a business career,...

Gaddafi's Libya is awash with oil money and open for business deals that are often used as a cover for financing revolutionary activities in and out of the country. In this novel, a businessman is caught in a dangerous game fraught with danger and deceit targeting the leadership of the Libyan dictator. In the midst is a doomed love affair with a woman-spy bent on seeking her own justice.

When an early-retired Canadian executive decides to research his roots in Italy he has no idea of what he would be getting into. Following a divorce from a childless marriage he is left alone, without a family and with nothing to look forward to. On his first trip to his ancestral town in central...

I was born in Libya (then an Italian colony) during WWII. I was taken to Italy as an infant and grew up under bombing raids, running from shelter to shelter. Throughout my childhood and teenage years I was shy, introverted and less than bright, but as a young man I became an overachiever, ambitious...

A father who wishes to remain anonymous tells the story of his son who develops symptoms of schizophrenia in his late teens and is later diagnosed with suffering from an acute case of delusional paranoia. What follows is twenty years of trying to find an acceptable modus vivendi via different medications,...

During the immediate post-Soviet years the privatization of state assets gave birth to a number of billionaires, later known as Oligarchs. Using their wealth, some of them developed political ambitions and stopped at nothing to gain power. A satellite telecom project became an acquisition target, needed to seize control of all national communications for an imminent coup d’état.

A high-level court case on business corruption is linked to a political conflict in West Sahara. Two brave women with diverse cultural assets play havoc with a senior executive of a multinational corporation. Their intimacy evolves into a threesome of passion and deceit, with clandestine activities fraught with danger. The contrasting aspects of the story underscore a major cultural divide.

A chance meeting between Adam and Blanca on a flight to Mexico City turns into a love story with unexpected consequences involving drug lords. He is a Canadian businessman charged with opening the Mexican market to a major multinational company, while she is a young attorney on a tourist tour of Mexico....

Gene Toner, a western businessman, gets involved in a web of intrigue and passion as he tries to help a well known older dissident get his memoir published in the West. The dissident is a former professor of history with connections at the top of the political spectrum. He is accused of instigating...

A suicidal senior executive meets his imaginary angel and is persuaded to keep looking for a second chance in life. He does so and finds himself embroiled in conflicting new relationships fraught with passion and questionable financial deals. His resolve and moral compass are therefore tested to the limit as he tries to choose between right and wrong.

This is a collection of discourses on a variety of political and social issues facing a Western World driven by the USA. Fascism, Nazism, socialism, political correctness, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Islam, NATO, superpowers, Russia, white supremacists, evolving social fabric et al are all subjects discussed in a frank and controversial fashion, without any particular order.

Three Brazilian leaders undertake to merge the twenty countries of Latin America into a single nation. The way they intend to do so is with unorthodox methods and of questionable ethics, but well within broad legal boundaries. Their moral compass, however, is often tested by incidents of seduction,...

This is a collection of short stories of casual trysts, mostly related to business encounters in various cities. The main protagonist is a sophisticated man in his mid-forties who happens to meet with young and not so young beautiful ladies during several years of business travels around the world....

Lucio Beltrame was a young engineer full of dreams and ambition when he left Italy for Libya in 1924. He wanted to contribute his talent and hard work to building a new country, with new cities and towns and villages, in part of North Africa still living in medieval times and nomadic lifestyle. Libya...