Background
He was born in Devon in 1961 and grew up in Yorkshire.
("Ridpath provides a rush of blood to the head and stings ...)
"Ridpath provides a rush of blood to the head and stings your page-turning fingertips." INDEPENDENT "Ridpath has the read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart." GUARDIAN The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for those who think big. So when David Lane - a quiet, cautious banker - is invited by his old friend Guy Jourdan to help start up ninetyminutes.com, he decides that for once he will do something daring, something dangerous. If only he'd realised quite how dangerous. Because Guy falls out with his father, Tony Jourdan, their biggest investor, bringing the company close to collapse. Then Tony is murdered - and David's rollercoaster ride into danger and disaster begins...
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(When his brother Richard, the head of a virtual reality c...)
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. By the author of Free to Trade. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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(Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of...)
Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old 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 rumours 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 homicide detective Magnus Jonson. Seconded to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after he runs afoul of a drug cartel back in Boston, Magnus also has his own reasons for returning to the country of his birth for the first time in nearly two decades - the unsolved murder of his father. 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 that will span several volumes, Where the Shadows Lie is the first in a thrilling new series from an established master.
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( The third book in the Fire & Ice series featuring Icela...)
The third book in the Fire & Ice series featuring Icelandic detective Magnus Jonson FreeFlow, a group of internet activists committed to the freedom of information, have video evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and have chosen Iceland as their HQ while they prepare to unleash their greatest coup on the world's media. On the glacial rim of erupting volcano Eyjafjallajökull, minutes after they christen their endeavor Operation Meltwater, one of them is murdered. The list of people Freeflow has antagonized is long—the Chinese government, Israeli military, a German Bank, Italian politicians, even U.S. college fraternities. Magnus Jonson has a long list of suspects but he's getting precious little help from FreeFlow—for an organization dedicated to the transparency of information, they're a secretive bunch. But they are not the only ones with secrets. Asta, a newly qualified priest, has contacted FreeFlow with information about a scandal in the church. Her involvement with FreeFlow will cost her dearly. And with the return of Magnus's brother Ollie to Iceland, the feud that has haunted their family for three generations is about to reignite.
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(It was a deal to die for. And somebody will. Paul Murray ...)
It was a deal to die for. And somebody will. Paul Murray is an ex-Olympic runner, so his training is perfect for the rigours of multi-million dollar bond trading in the City of London. The pace is breakneck, the smell of success intoxicating. Then the body of his colleague Debbie is fished out of the Thames and Paul’s world is turned upside down. He begins a dangerous, chaotic tumble into the darker side of trading. From the glass towers of London to the frenzied deals of Wall Street and the murky back rooms of Las Vegas glitz, Paul has got to find answers fast before someone else makes a killing. Free To Trade was Michael Ridpath’s first financial thriller. It was translated into 33 languages and stayed at No 2 in the British bestseller lists for three months. Ridpath was prescient: the novel features “Uncle Sam’s Money Machine”, an early version of a CDO, or Collateralised Debt Obligation, the financial instrument that was later to blow up the international banking system. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL RIDPATH’S FINANCIAL THRILLERS: “Ridpath has that read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart.” - The Guardian “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 “It’ll send a shiver down bankers’ spines.” - Mirror “The author makes you feel the intensity of the trading floor, the combination of number-crunching and gut instinct that leads people to take big risks, the thrill of playing a hunch and getting it right.” - Los Angeles times Book Review “For sheer entertainment, there's nothing in the mystery genre to beat a well-constructed thriller… …the new book of Michael Ridpath provides a master-class in how it's done. I read it in one gulp." - The Observer “As slick and compulsive a piece of storytelling as can be found in the best of blockbuster fiction.” - Sunday Express. PAGE ONE: I had lost half a million dollars in slightly less than half an hour and the coffee machine didn’t work. This was turning into a bad day. Half a million dollars is a lot of money. And I needed a cup of coffee badly.
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(Money is the score. Winners do what it takes. People get ...)
Money is the score. Winners do what it takes. People get hurt. Or die. Michael Ridpath’s financial thrillers have regularly hit the Sunday Times bestseller lists and been translated in over 30 languages. Greed, ambition, the desire to win, the euphoria and despair of making and losing millions, the courage to do the right thing when you might lose your job, or even your life. These are all elements of Ridpath’s fast-paced thrillers set in a financial jungle shrouded in mists of grey, where you don’t know who is good, who is bad and who is something imbetween. You won’t be able to put them down. Here are three of his best: TRADING REALITY: Virtual reality is the technology of the future, and Mark Fairfax’s brother Richard runs the leading company in the field worldwide. He has also been murdered. Struggling to keep the business in the black, and with corporate predators closing in, Mark must learn fast and trust no one. THE MARKETMAKER: Ricardo Ross is The Marketmaker, the king of the Latin American bond market. Disenchanted academic Nick Elliot knows that he may be selling his soul when he joins Ricardo Ross at Ross’s investment bank, but Nick needs the money. On Nick’s first business trip to Rio, he soon discovers you are either with The Marketmaker, or you have made an enemy for life. FATAL ERROR: In the dotcom boom it was easy to make millions … and then lose them. And some people are not good losers. The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for those who think big. David Lane – a quiet, cautious banker – is invited by his old friend to help start up football website ninetyminutes.com. He decides that for once he will do something daring, something dangerous. If only he’d realized quite how dangerous the dotcom bubble could be. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL RIDPATH’S FINANCIAL THRILLERS: “Ridpath has cornered the market in intelligent, fast-moving, financial thrillers” – Sunday Times “Ridpath has that read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart.” - The Guardian “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 “It’ll send a shiver down bankers’ spines.” - Mirror “The author makes you feel the intensity of the trading floor, the combination of number-crunching and gut instinct that leads people to take big risks, the thrill of playing a hunch and getting it right.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review “For sheer entertainment, there's nothing in the mystery genre to beat a well-constructed thriller… …the new book of Michael Ridpath provides a master-class in how it's done. I read it in one gulp." - The Observer “As slick and compulsive a piece of storytelling as can be found in the best of blockbuster fiction.” - Sunday Express. “Ridpath has the rare gift of being able to write clearly and simply about the corporate world in a way that suggests he actually wants the reader to understand it.”- The Times “The change of plot is superb, but the suspense is something else. The book is also very easy to read by non-banking-related people, who want to see what this so-called hotshot profession is about. 5 stars.” – Kindle Reviewer
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(Ricardo Ross is The Marketmaker, the king of the Latin Am...)
Ricardo Ross is The Marketmaker, the king of the Latin American bond markets. How far would you go to please the king? Disenchanted academic Nick Elliot knows that he may be selling his soul when he joins Ricardo Ross at City brokers Dekker Ward, but he needs the money. As Nick soon discovers you are either with The Marketmaker, or you have made an enemy for life. While Nick is learning the ropes, strange things start to happen to Dekker Ward employees. One top trader is fired without warning. Another dies in a bungled robbery. Nick can’t hide his feelings for his attractive Brazilian colleague Isabel. Then she is kidnapped in Rio. Nick decides go to Brazil to look for her, a country he doesn’t know at all. But the Marketmaker knows it, knows it very well … The Marketmaker is one of Michael Ridpath’s eight bestselling financial thrillers, which were published in over 30 languages. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL RIDPATH’S FINANCIAL THRILLERS: “Ridpath has that read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart.” - The Guardian “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 “It’ll send a shiver down bankers’ spines.” - Mirror “The author makes you feel the intensity of the trading floor, the combination of number-crunching and gut instinct that leads people to take big risks, the thrill of playing a hunch and getting it right.” - Los Angeles times Book Review “For sheer entertainment, there's nothing in the mystery genre to beat a well-constructed thriller… …the new book of Michael Ridpath provides a master-class in how it's done. I read it in one gulp." - The Observer “As slick and compulsive a piece of storytelling as can be found in the best of blockbuster fiction.” - Sunday Express.
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He was born in Devon in 1961 and grew up in Yorkshire.
He was educated at Millfield School and Merton College, Oxford where he obtained first-class honours in Modern History, and represented the University at athletics.
He spent eight years working as a bond trader at an international bank in the City of London. His past employers include Saudi International Bank and Apax Partners. His latest work is the series about an Icelandic detective called Magnus Jonson.
On the other hand, his lengthier novels have been criticised as needing to be "whittled down" by a paid editors
( The third book in the Fire & Ice series featuring Icela...)
(When his brother Richard, the head of a virtual reality c...)
(Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of...)
("Ridpath provides a rush of blood to the head and stings ...)
(Ricardo Ross is The Marketmaker, the king of the Latin Am...)
(This is a fast-paced thriller of financial intrigue, murd...)
(It was a deal to die for. And somebody will. Paul Murray ...)
(Money is the score. Winners do what it takes. People get ...)