Linda Davies creëert snelle pageturners die thema's als risico, identiteit en verleiding onderzoeken. Voordat ze een internationaal gevierde auteur werd, navigeerde ze als een van de eerste vrouwen in de City van Londen in de wereld van investment banking, ervaringen die haar spannende verhalen voeden. Haar werk onderzoekt wie we werkelijk zijn wanneer ons het meest dierbare wordt afgenomen. Davies baseert zich vaak op haar eigen buitengewone leven, waaronder een aangrijpende ontvoering in Iran, en transformeert deze ervaringen in meeslepende fictie.
When love goes wrong, death is the most final settlement of all - Morganna Hutton is a young artist, beautiful and rich. When she falls in love with Archie Edge, she thinks he is the answer to her prayers. But the love of money is the root of all evil, and wickedness in glamorous disguise stalks this compulsive book. From Long Island to the wilds of Scotland, we follow Morganna, first in her quest for love and then for justice...
Gesigneerd / Signed / Signé / 9789024526116 / Suspense / Thrillers / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / soft cover / 14 x 22 cm / 316 .pp /
Sarah Jensen heeft alles over voor haar topbaan... behalve haar leven! Iedereen die werkt in de City, het hart van de Londense zakenwereld, heeft maar één doel: geld verdienen. Zonder die ene, allesoverheersende ambitie red je het niet. Voor een man is het al moeilijk om in die wereld te overleven, voor een vrouw is het bijna onmogelijk. Sarah Jensen, een van de jongste en best betaalde valutahandelaren in de City, weet alles van overleven. Haar ongewone jeugd was een harde leerschool, en haar schoonheid en flair verschaffen haar de juiste camouflage in de slangenkuil waarin zij werkt. De Bank of England en de inlichtingendienst MI6 willen de corruptie binnen een grote financieringsbank laten onder- zoeken. Zij rekruteren Sarah als de ideale infiltrant, maar houden informatie over de omvang van de operatie achter. En Sarah raakt verwikkeld in een levensgevaarlijke samenzwering...
They say your personality is set at age seven. This is the year Helen Jenks's father left, the day after millions went missing from the bank where he was a director. Helen never gave up her belief in her father, the familiar figure, Proustian smells, his classic BMW she now owned with that familiar smell of aftershave on rainy days, but everyone has doubts . . . and everyone doubts her. Did her heritage drive her to become a major player in the City's dealing rooms, where derivatives players earn millions? The jungle of the City of London leads to the Machu Picchu trail in Peru, where Helen Jenks's heritage becomes entwined with the world's secret intelligence services and the biggest business of all, cocaine. Linda Davies takes you from the world's financial centres to the mountains and jungles of Peru, where the old Incas succumbed to the Conquistadores. And, if you want to know how the City works, read this book. 'A cracking, fast-paced thriller. Excellently researched. I thoroughly enjoyed it.' General Sir Peter de la Billire. 'Excellent depiction of Peru . . . well handled cliff-hanger ending.'' Daily Express.
While out riding, schoolgirl Merry Owen finds a chest containing an ancient Welsh text that leads her into a past filled with treasure, secrets and danger. But it's her skill with the Longbow, an old family tradition, that will save her future.
We last met her in NEST OF VIPERS, Linda Davies' bestselling first thriller about the young city trader turned MI6 agent. Then she was a woman with a host of secrets and a haunted past.Now Sarah Jensen is back again, running from a love which was too big to handle, hiding her baby son from the father who does not know he exists. A woman with more at stake than ever, and more to fear.SOMETHING WILD is an absolutely thrilling novel, the story of a woman who was once tough, but is now vulnerable, her skills blunted by motherhood. A woman at bay.
Two women - once friends at Oxford - and a diamond mine in Vietnam are the bait that M16 hope will ensnare businessman-villain Robie Frazer. Frazer's business interests are multi-national and his wealth extraordinary. But he has become corrupt, selling arms to the Chinese, extorting what he needs from people by violence and blackmail. Eva Cunningham, undercover agent-turned-heroin-junkie, has reason to hate Fraser And her old friend Cassie Stewart, now a high-flying venture capitalist in the City, also finds herself involved in the game to trap Frazer. A game which will end in a terrifying hunt-to-kill pursuit in the jungles of Vietnam.
This book examines the consequences for both State social workers and community practitioners in face of increasing governmental restraints. "Takes a highly critical view of social-services management and the controlling role of government bureaucracies."--"Calgary Herald"
Money is one of the most important languages on the planet. In this book, Linda Davies helps people understand and speak it better.
First printing. Includes stories by Daniel Wallace, Ursula Hegi, Michael Dorris and others, plus interviews with writers Jonathan Raban and Charles Johnson. SIGNED by Charles Johnson at his interview. Each story is preceded by a picture of the author as a child, brief autobiographical comments, and a printed example of their signature. Several authors in each issue also contribute to the comments and photographs found in the "Last Pages" at the end of each issue. A rather idiosyncratic journal, edited by two sisters, but one which consistently publishes excellent fiction. 168 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
