In those years, I was Managing Director of the International Division of the Swedish company Cherry-foretagen AB and having already extensive operations in Yugoslavia – until then a benign regime compared to the Soviet Bloc – we used that as a base to explore possibilities behind the rusting ‘Iron Curtain’.

Negotiations were already taking place in Russia, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic countries, but it was the Peoples’ Republic of Poland that was to be the scene of our first major breakthrough.

Undoubtedly the word most used in connection with gambling
is 'luck'. But what is luck ? If you consult your dictionary it will probably
give you - events that are beyond control and seem subject to chance- or
- the supposed tendency of chance to bring a succession of favourable or
unfavourable events. 

World Casino Directory writer James Wrethman releases his exciting and dramatic casino novel 'an Occupational Hazard'