Michael Ridpath, Author Signet Book $6.99 (404p) ISBN 978-0-451-19753-5
Life has been good for Simon Ayot: he enjoys working for a prominent venture capital firm in Boston and he loves his wife, Lisa. But near the beginning of this lackluster novel, Simon's world begins to crumble. First, his request for added funds for
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Michael Ridpath, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (346p) ISBN 978-0-06-017630-3
Ridpath's first novel is a junk bond of a financial thriller, flashy but insubstantial. Trouble comes to narrator Paul Murray, rising bond trader at a small London firm, when one of his colleagues drowns in the Thames. The cops think accident or...
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Michael Ridpath, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (389p) ISBN 978-0-06-017629-7
High tech and high finance make a natural pair, in real life and now in fiction thanks to Ridpath (Free to Trade), whose second novel features desperate characters trading in reality of the virtual kind. Narrator Mark Fairfax, a London bond trader,...
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Michael Ridpath. Minotaur, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-67503-5
Ridpath (Fatal Error) smoothly melds history, legend, and a police procedural in this first of a crime series set in Iceland. When a Dominican drug cartel targets Sgt. Det. Magnus Jonson of the Boston PD's homicide unit, Magnus is taken out of harm's
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Michael Ridpath. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-67504-2
The 2008 financial meltdown sets the backdrop for Ridpath’s impressive second crime thriller featuring Magnus Jonson, a Boston police detective who moved from Iceland with his father to the U.S. at age 12 and has been recently seconded to the...
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