Fan Li
Fan Li was a minister who lived in China from 516BC to 442BC and served under Gou Jian, King of Yue. He wrote a famous book called "Golden Rules of Business Success" which is still in publication to this day, 2500 years later. Little known though, is another book that he wrote just a few years before his death, an interesting tale steeped in legends near his hometown, of war and beautiful women, deception and eventual retirement. So, one non-fiction work, and another clearly a...