Hale storm
Subtitle: the incredible saga of Baltimore's Ed Hale, including a secret life with the CIA
By: Kevin Cowherd
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Apprentice House Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781627200356; 9781627200363
Subjects: Businessmen; Biography
Description: The most interesting man in the world? At times, Ed Hale made the Dos Equis guy look like a shut-in. Now for the first time, Hale's inspiring story is told in the pages of Hale Storm. It's a rollicking, inspirational tale like no other: a kid from gritty Sparrow's Point, Md., has his fill of back-breaking work in the steel mill, thumbs his nose at college and sets off to seek his fortune. With an equal measure of brains and guts, he conquers the worlds of business and industry, buys an indoor soccer team, hobnobs with princes, politicians and heads of state, works covertly for the Central Intelligence Agency, dates a succession of astonishingly beautiful women and builds an iconic tower in the midst of the grimy Baltimore waterfront that helps transform acres of forlorn industrial ruin into a thriving neighborhood. The tough times are chronicled here, too: Hale's swings and misses on two turbulent marriages, his history-making divorce from his first wife, union problems and death threats, the plane crashes he survived, the business deals that went sour, the distinctive tower he was forced to sell and the heart-wrenching decision to walk away from the beloved bank that he founded and nurtured for so many years. It's a singular story of an American original that readers won't want to miss.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1. "He was just an average good kid"; title: Chapter 2. Starting slow, dreaming big; title: Chapter 3. The break of a lifetime; title: Chapter 4. You snooze, you lose; title: Chapter 5. The Midas Touch redux; title: Chapter 6. No business for the weak; title: Chapter 7. Trouble in Shangri-la; title: Chapter 8. A judgment for the ages; title: Chapter 9. The Wizard of Oz buys a team; title: Chapter 10. "Mom, I have all these new friends"; title: Hale through photos; title: Chapter 11. Fresh air comes with a price; title: Chapter 12. The Agency comes calling; title: Chapter 13. Back in the game; title: Chapter 14. "We built this bank for you."; title: Chapter 15. Working hard, playing hard; title: Chapter 16. A tower rises from the wasteland; title: Chapter 17. The saga of Girlie Hoffman; title: Chapter 18. Living on top of the world; title: Chapter 19. The fixer; title: Chapter 20. Storm clouds on the horizon; title: Chapter 21. "The deepest, darkest bowl of crap."; title: Chapter 22. Still going for the action; title: Ed Hale's life lessons; title: Author's biography.