The Marketmaker: A gripping financial thriller - Softcover

Ridpath, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530934559 ISBN 13: 9781530934553

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

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?

About the Author

Previously Head of Trading at Saudi International Bank, where he managed the largest junk bond portfolio in Europe, Michael Ridpath burst upon the book world with his first financial thriller Free to Trade. He is now a full-time writer and lives in North London with his wife and three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1530934559
• ISBN 13: 9781530934553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340