Bad Company

Wartime secrets threaten to topple a President - in the heart-stopping new adventure featuring Sean Dillon, from the incomparable Jack Higgins - bestselling author of Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest men in the world, developing a secret alliance with the Rashid family - long-time foes of Major Ferguson of British Intelligence, his undercover enforcer Sean Dillon and their American colleague Blake Johnson. Now the ultimate confrontation is drawing near. The diary and its explosive revelations of a secret wartime meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt will destroy the US President Jake Cazalet ...unless Dillon can find it first.

Wartime secrets threaten to topple a President - in the heart-stopping new adventure featuring Sean Dillon, from the incomparable Jack Higgins - bestselling author of Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest men in the world, developing a secret alliance with the Rashid family - long-time foes of Major Ferguson of British Intelligence, his undercover enforcer Sean Dillon and their American colleague Blake Johnson. Now the ultimate confrontation is drawing near. The diary and its explosive revelations of a secret wartime meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt will destroy the US President Jake Cazalet ...unless Dillon can find it first.

René Vestergaard var 44, weekendfar og slagter på attende år, da han søgte ind i Bandidos for at finde meningen med sit liv. Han sagde sit gode job op, meldte sig ind i en støttegruppe til rockerklubben Bandidos, og gennem fire år lærte han alt om organiseret kriminalitet på Sydsjælland og Lolland-Falster. Han deltog i røverier, indbrud, narkokriminalitet, hævnaktioner, voldelige konflikter og våbenkriminalitet. Han viste sit værd, blev prøvemedlem og rykkede ind i inderkredsen omkring nogle af de mest magtfulde personer i Bandidos. Han fik domme, og han tog dem for klubben, uden at tøve. Men han forblev rocker på nederste trin. Skuffet over livet som Bandidos-rocker kastede René Vestergaard en sommermorgen i 2014 sin pistol i vandet fra Frederik d. 9’s Bro i Nykøbing Falster og stak af. Da Bandidos efterfølgende opsøgte hans familie, besluttede han sig for at fortælle alt til politiet. BAD COMPANY er en grotesk krimidokumentar om en mand, hans midtvejskrise og rockerklubben Bandidos’ danske gren. Med udgangspunkt i en unik insiderberetning, talrige kilder og retsbøger fra stribevis af kriminalsager tegner journalist Peter Graae et upoleret portræt af verdens næststørste rockerklub, der gennem mere end tre årtier har opereret i Danmark, samlet under parolen »Bad Company«. PETER GRAAE, f. 1985, er uddannet journalist fra Roskilde Universitet. Han arbejder for TV 2’s kriminalmagasin Station 2 og har i flere programmer belyst rocker- og bandemiljøet i Danmark. Han har tidligere arbejdet for TV 2’s regionale tv-station, som dækker Sydsjælland og Lolland-Falster. Vinder af den journalistiske graverpris »Spadestiksprisen« i 2015.

René Vestergaard var 44, weekendfar og slagter på attende år, da han søgte ind i Bandidos for at finde meningen med sit liv. Han deltog i røverier, indbrud, narkokriminalitet, hævnaktioner, voldelige konflikter og våbenkriminalitet. Han blev prøvemedlem og rykkede ind i inderkredsen omkring nogle af de mest magtfulde personer i Bandidos.Men han forblev rocker på nederste trin. Skuffet over livet som Bandidos-rocker kastede René Vestergaard en sommermorgen i 2014 sin pistol i vandet fra Frederik d. 9’s Bro i Nykøbing Falster og stak af. Da Bandidos efterfølgende opsøgte hans familie, besluttede han sig for at fortælle alt til politiet.BAD COMPANY er en grotesk krimidokumentar om en mand, hans midtvejskrise og rockerklubben Bandidos’ danske gren. Med udgangspunkt i en unik insiderberetning, talrige kilder og retsbøger fra stribevis af kriminalsager tegner journalist Peter Graae et upoleret portræt af verdens næststørste rockerklub.

A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers. Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real estate. Private equity executives, meanwhile, are not only among the wealthiest people in American society, but have grown to become modern-day barons with outsized influence on our politics and legislation. CEOs of firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, and Apollo are rewarded with seats in the Senate and on the boards of the country's most august institutions; meanwhile, entire communities are hollowed out as a result of their buyouts. Workers lose their jobs. Communities lose their institutions. Only private equity wins. Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell's Bad Company unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences also pull back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security. In the tradition of deeply human reportage like Matthew Desmond's Evicted , Megan Greenwell pulls back the curtain on shadowy multibillion dollar private equity firms, telling a larger story about how private equity is reshaping the economy, disrupting communities, and hollowing out the very idea of the American dream itself. Timely and masterfully told, Bad Company is a forceful rebuke of America's most consequential, yet least understood economic forces.

A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers. Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real estate. Private equity executives, meanwhile, are not only among the wealthiest people in American society, but have grown to become modern-day barons with outsized influence on our politics and legislation. CEOs of firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, and Apollo are rewarded with seats in the Senate and on the boards of the country's most august institutions; meanwhile, entire communities are hollowed out as a result of their buyouts. Workers lose their jobs. Communities lose their institutions. Only private equity wins. Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell's Bad Company unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences also pull back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security. In the tradition of deeply human reportage like Matthew Desmond's Evicted , Megan Greenwell pulls back the curtain on shadowy multibillion dollar private equity firms, telling a larger story about how private equity is reshaping the economy, disrupting communities, and hollowing out the very idea of the American dream itself. Timely and masterfully told, Bad Company is a forceful rebuke of America's most consequential, yet least understood economic forces.