New to Me:C&W aka L.I.M.E non-fiction book exposé

Rudy Gurley and his book

I was busy browsing the Trinidad Guardian’s website when a Google ad with the title C&W Exposed caught my eye, I clicked and look what I found. Had to share. The Book is titled “Sent Overseas” and it was written by Rudy Gurley, former executive of Britain’s Cable & Wireless. The book’s website pitch grabbed me. Here’s what it said:
“Rudy Gurley, former executive of Britain’s Cable & Wireless, by popular demand has re-released Sent From Overseas, his groundbreaking exposè on the inner workings of the telecoms giant. The first exposè of a foreign multinational in the developing world, Sent From Overseas is credited with prompting a name change from Cable & Wireless to LIME.

Rudy shattered the colonial glass ceiling when in 2001 he was appointed the first black chief executive of C&W Grenada. And his appointment not two years later to the helm of C&W St. Lucia made him the first local so anointed. Cable & Wireless, a relic of the British Empire, had until recently enjoyed a monopolistic reign over the English-speaking Caribbean, where hordes of expatriate managers coasted in plantation-style luxury.

A British-trained accountant with an MBA, Rudy played a pivotal role negotiating telecoms liberalization in the Caribbean. But it was his entrepreneurial leadership in the post-liberalization era that most distinguished him, earning him the title St.Lucia’s Executive of the year (2003).

But In the midst of intense competitive rivalry on the corporate battlefield – just when it seemed he’d transformed the monolithic multinational into a customer-friendly organization with a local face and a fiercely competitive streak – Rudy’s pendulum would swing. Almost overnight, the highflier, reportedly earmarked for a major promotion, found himself the target of spiraling rumours of the type that burns reputations and crashes careers. It wasn’t long before he disappeared mysteriously from the scene, his whereabouts unknown to most.

Sent From Overseas, Rudy’s explosively revealing account of what transpired, reads like an adventure novel rather than a dry documentary. Yet it is made intensely real by his masterful use of elements common to fiction in a work that fits the genre of a non-fiction novel.

Commenting on the legal implications of his expose, Rudy said: “C&W has every right to mount a legal challenge, as I’m supposedly gagged by a non-disclosure clause … but where would America be today had Rosa Parks not done what she did?”

A descendant of an African slave and a British plantation owner of 18th-century St. Vincent, Peter Gurley, Rudy says by remaining silent he’d be “doing a great disservice to the descendants of the dispossessed, the exploited, the subjugated … descendants of slaves and indentured servants schooled into believing they are genetically inferior, that subservience is but a virtue.”

According to an editorial review on Amazon.com, “Sent From Overseas is a captivating, culturally stimulating true story, possibly of historic proportions … a story filled with corporate machinations, intrigue and suspense … a dramatic clash in paradise of two powerful men whose bitter feud may well define a generation.”

So for all of your Cable & Wireless/L.I.M.E fans you know this is a must read. *surfing over to Amazon,credit card in hand* 🙂