No Easy Money: You never win playing by the rules... (Dale Hunter)

No Easy Money

"You never win playing by the rules."

Entrepreneurs face challenges every day from inside the business and from the world around them. It's hard to be a hero. This is the story of an entrepreneur who wants to win and not play too far outside the rules.

Dale Hunter is a young entrepreneur in Montreal running a successful business in the 1980s world of personal computers. He's having fun and making money until the bad guys arrive. Now he has to try to survive without playing by gangster rules. It will require courage and creativity and the support of some new friends.

While fighting off the criminals, he still has to manage challenges from his employees and customers, the bank and his partners and his two suppliers in Korea and Taiwan. He has to make deals with them all to stay alive.

It starts with a demand for protection money and threats of violence to his family. Hunter agrees to make payments to a gangster named Jacques Talbot. But the pressure increases as Talbot squeezes him for more. Hunter decides to call the cops. That's a mistake and the criminals raise their demands and the threats to his family. Hunter makes a deal with Frank the Fixer, a tough young Somalian refugee who now works on both sides of the law in Montreal. He can be more creative than the cops, but his first attempt to take out Talbot makes matters worse. Hunter tries to deal with the gangsters himself and only digs himself in deeper again. Frank and Hunter decide the solution is to raise the stakes with an introduction to the Montreal Mafia who will take care of the other gangsters.

Hunter also appeals to his banker, his partners and his suppliers for help, but he is still not safe from the gangsters. He's now caught between the first gang of thugs and the Mafia who are at war with them.

Somebody is going to get killed. Dale Hunter may never get back to business as usual.

Delvin Chatterson Like Dale Hunter, Del Chatterson is an engineer from UBC with an MBA from McGill and ran a computer products distribution business in Montreal in the 1980s. Some of the stories in his first novel of the Dale Hunter series, No Easy Money actually happened, but most are fiction. "They're all my worst nightmares," he says, "that I decided to share through these imagined stories." Del is a strategic advisor, consultant, coach and cheerleader for entrepreneurs and has written extensively on business topics. He now has several new writing projects, including a short story collection and this series of business novels. He has published two business books, Don't Do It the Hard Way, A wise man learns from the mistakes of others, only a fool insists on making his own and The Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Business Plans. The business books share the real-life stories of entrepreneurs and the lessons learned. Originally from the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Del has lived and worked for most of the past forty years in the fascinating, multicultural, bilingual, French-Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec. He is dedicated to sharing his ideas, experience and advice with entrepreneurs to help improve their lives and their businesses. He has helped entrepreneurs around the world, including volunteer consulting and financial support in developing economies and in Aboriginal communities. His own life experience includes running nine marathons after the age of fifty (setting no records, but never being last) and running for Member of Parliament in the 2000 Canadian Federal election. (He came second, not last.) Learn more about Del at his websites: For readers at www.DelvinChatterson.com and for entrepreneurs at www.LearningEntrepreneurship.com. You may also follow Del on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. Thank you for sharing his books and providing your feedback, comments and reviews. It all helps to make the next book better.