When his brother Richard, the head of a virtual reality company, is murdered, Mark Fairfax tries to further his brilliant brother's discoveries before the killer succeeds in destroying the company

Trading Reality

Literature & Fiction

RIDPATH, Michael

United States

Harpercollins

Paul Murray, an apprentice bond trader at a London brokerage firm, is shocked by the killing of an inquisitive young female colleague and stumbles into a global web of financial fraud, intrigue, and murder when he investigates. A first novel. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Free to Trade: A Novel of Suspense

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

When the death of an attractive colleague and the details of a suspicious investment arouse the curiosity of a young bond trader at a small London financial house, he becomes caught in a web of international chicanery that could cost him more than his career. "It is the author's insight into the complexities of the business that gives his novel so much life. And he can write.... Yes, he has a winner here." --The New York Times Book Review

Free to Trade

Relishing his life as a bond trader for a multi-million-dollar London financial house, former Olympic runner Paul Murray is shocked when his lover, Debbie, is murdered and uncovers a series of shady double deals. Reprint.

TRADING REALITY - C FORMAT

The excitement of million-dollar deals meets the daring of cold-blooded murder in this shocking financial thriller.
Mark Fairfax is a young, gifted London bond trader with a high-paying job, a stellar track record and a beautiful girlfriend. His older brother, Richard, owns FairSystems, a small company poised to do for the virtual reality world what Bill Gates did for personal computers. But one dark night Richard is brutally murdered in his workshop.
Mark immediately steps into Richard's shoes -- and his life. Through cunning and luck, Mark struggles to keep his brother's business afloat and to discover the secrets behind his death. Until Mark himself becomes the target, moving ever closer to his brother's fate.

Genre Fiction

HarperTorch

Free To Trade

Thrillers & Suspense

HarperPaperbacks

Disgruntled academic Nick Elliott has reluctantly taken work with city brokers Dekker Ward. Strange things start happening to Dekker's employees, including Nick's colleague, Isabel, which is when Nick decides to take on a fixer who is unaccustomed to people standing in his way.

The Marketmaker

Contemporary

Seal Books

An ancient saga. A modern legend. A secret worth killing for.
Amid Iceland’s wild, volcanic landscape, rumors swirl of an ancient manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumors can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life.
Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised detective Magnus Jonson. On loan to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after a Massachusetts drug cartel puts a bounty on his head, Magnus is eager work the Haraldsson case, a rare lethal crime for the island nation. But his unorthodox investigative technique soon gets him into trouble with his more traditional superiors, intensifying his mixed feelings about returning to his native country—a place of tangled family loyalties haunted by his father’s unsolved murder—after nearly two decades. And as Magnus is about to discover, the past casts a long shadow in Iceland. 
Binding Iceland’s landscape and history, secrets and superstitions in a strikingly original plot in the tradition of Arnaldur Indridason and Henning Mankell, Where the Shadows Lie is a heart-pounding new series from an established master.

Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)

Minotaur Books

"International thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." --Peter James, #1 international bestselling author of Dead Man's Grip
 In Iceland, revenge is best served at arctic temperatures…
 Iceland 1934: Two boys playing in the lava fields that surround their isolated farmsteads see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them and their families for generations. 
Iceland 2009: the credit crunch bites. The currency has been devalued, banks nationalized, savings annihilated, lives ruined. Grassroots revolution is in the air, as is the feeling that someone ought to pay...ought to pay the blood price. And in a country with a population of just 300,000 souls, in a country where everyone knows everybody, it isn't hard to draw up a list of exactly who is responsible. 
And then, one-by-one, to cross them off. 
Iceland 2010: As bankers and politicians start to die, at home and abroad, it is up to Magnus Jonson to unravel the web of conspirators before they strike again. But while Magnus investigates the crimes of the present, the crimes of the past are catching up with him in Far North, the newest heart-stopping mystery from acclaimed author Michael Ridpath.

Far North (Fire and Ice)

British brokerage firm Dekker Ward created and currently dominate the turbulent market in Latin American bonds. Their economic stranglehold is enforced by aggressive trading and smart decisions by Ricardo Ross, their most successful trader, better known as the Marketmaker. For disgruntled academic Nick Elliott, a job with Dekker's is his ticket to finally being able to carry his mortgage, and he is content to ride his luck as the new boy--until strange things start happening to Dekker employees. One top trader is fired, another dies in a bungled robbery. Nick falls for his colleague Isabel, and soon after she is kidnapped. Just what sort of business is he really involved in? And has he left it too late to run away?

Doubleday, Canada

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Trading Reality

Free to Trade: A Novel of Suspense

Free to Trade

Free to Trade: A Novel of Suspense

Trading Reality

Free To Trade

The Marketmaker

Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)

Far North (Fire and Ice)

The Marketmaker