The Marketmaker

First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, some very slight yellowing to page block, remains of old sticky label to front jacket, not price clipped (£10.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 343pp. Tough City brokers Dekker Ward created and dominate the turbulent market in Latin American bonds. Ricardo Ross is their most successful trader, they call him the Marketmaker. You're either with him or you've made an enemy for life. Disgruntled academic Nick Elliott is Dekker's greenest trader, content to ride his luck as the new boy on the stand. 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. Then she is kidnapped. Just what sort of business is he really involved in? And has he left it too late to run away.…