My First Nine Lives: Full Value Received

John Stauffer Potter

ISBN 10: 1480016691 / ISBN 13: 9781480016699

Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

About this Item

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine, Fresh copy. Paperback.313 pp.

Seller Inventory # E31936

Bibliographic Details

• Title: My First Nine Lives: Full Value Received
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480016691
• ISBN 13: 9781480016699
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: N/a
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

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Synopsis

Dragged off a train in central China by Communist soldiers, former U.S. naval intelligence officer John Potter, accused of espionage, fights for his freedom and possibly his life during a brutal interrogation by counter-intelligence agents. Physically and mentally exhausted, he stands for 15 hours under a barrage of accusations and demands in Chinese, prodded to his feet with rifle butts whenever he collapses. Such life-threatening situations are no strangers to Potter during his First Nine Lives. After graduating from Harvard in 1947, he charges through adventures in a dozen countries, culminating in Korea, where he organizes a brilliantly successful shipping and trading business employing 300 people and nearly crashes a plane carrying 40 passengers. Throughout these pages the reader is plunged into unexpected situations that Potter encounters some frightening, some outrageously funny, all gripping.

About the Author

Born 1924 in California, John Potter was raised in a respected family in Shanghai, China; educated there and in America at St. George's School, Harvard University and Business School, U. of Colorado Language School and Columbia Business School. After 3 1/2 years of duty in WWII, he was discharged as Lieutenant (j.g.) naval intelligence. From then on, his "lives" take off. My First Nine Lives describes Potter's business ventures and hair-raising experiences in seven Asian countries, starting in Shanghai in 1945. His ninth life ends when he leaves Korea to begin his Second Nine Lives in Europe -- much of it exploring under the Atlantic and Mediterranean.