She Who Tamed the Dragons

The heroine of this bold novel makes a difficult journey from the Russian hinterlands to Singapore, where, by chance, she finds herself in the profession of a ship broker. Multi-million contracts, oil and gas and shipping magnates, clients from Europe and Asia with their luxurious offices and sports cars—all of it tempts a young girl who isn’t used to such realities. She not only ends up in a professional niche where women are less than two percent—she also feels like she’s in the claws of dragons who can do anything to get what they want.

She accepts the challenge and becomes part of an industry that doesn’t like outsiders. The author openly tells what qualities are needed to go from a pawn to a queen in a corporate “Game of Thrones.” The book was announced by the business school of the University of Oxford, from which the author graduated.