When the Governor of the Bank of England and the Director of Counter-Narcotics Crime at MI6 decide to investigate corruption in a leading merchant bank, they identify Sarah Jensen as the ideal undercover agent.

One of the top foreign exchange traders in the City, she is addicted to risk as a way of blotting out the pain of childhood tragedy, while her glamour provides the perfect camouflage in the ruthless financial jungle.

For Sarah the assignment is impossible to resist. But as she gets close to the heart of a deadly internationale conspiracy, she is soon playing for the very highest stakes, her life....

RELEASE NOTES:

This book is going to AliceF (relay). Happy reading!

Received in the post today from malagan, as part of the "Love a good mystery" relay.


From the Author

The Perfect Financial Crime

"What is the most spectacular financial crime that could be committed?" This was a question that occurred to me in my previous job as a banker. After graduating from Oxford I worked in New York and then London, pursuing deals across Europe and coming into contact with high financiers, politicians and crooks. The scope for crime was immense. One day I sat down and tried to think like a criminal. How would I make a fortune? How could I bridge the gap between the City and the world at large off which it feeds? The result of these musings was Nest of Vipers, a novel in which I show the links between governments, central banks, and crime, and the role that the intelligence services now have in business and finance. The City is a perfect cover for spies.

Not long after Nest of Vipers appeared the subject of financial crime attracted international attention thanks to Nick Leeson and the downfall of Barings Bank. More recently dissaffected British agents have begun to reveal the links between the security services and the banks with allegations that MI6 had a mole in the Bundesbank and that the Russians were spying on banks in the City of London. All this makes Nest of Vipers even more topical now than when it first appeared.

Released into Fellraven's "British Mysteries, Crime and Thrillers Bookbox"... though looking at it again, I might make the time to read it quickly before it goes :-}

Well I had a go, but it's not the sort of thing I could just easily get into after all... I'm afraid my ignorance of the City scene and the things financial people talk about simply got in the way; perhaps that wouldn't be an issue for another reader, but it was for me, unfortunately.

Taken out of the bookbox for Mum.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left at the hotel information.