Linda Davies
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First British Edition Headline (2001) |
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Something Wild
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 best 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.
Short of money, she takes a freelance job, investigating a new client for her old investment bank, only to find that this client is the very man of wham she is most afraid. There is nowhere to run to now, nowhere to hide. To protect her child Sarah Jensen must become again the street fighter she once was. If she can.
Something Wild is the story of a woman who was once tough, but is now vulnerable, her skills blunted by motherhood. A woman at bay.
Praise for Linda Davies’ novels:
‘Stylish thriller imparts all the fear and exhilaration of financial juggling on a massive scale’ Daily Mail
‘If John Grisham were female and British and attuned to the high-tech tintinnabulation of currencies changing hands around the world, he might write a twisty thriller such as Nest of Vipers’ Fortune Magazine
‘A taut, sexy thriller’ Evening Standard
‘This riveting suspense-high finance combo marks Davies - a former trader - as Wall Street's answer to Scott Turow’ New Woman
‘Her writing style is mellifluous, her understanding of high-stakes currency trading authoritative yet unobtrusive, and her action scenes snap - making this a financial thriller with bull, not bear, written all over it’ Publishers Weekly
‘Linda Davies shows all the signs of an engaging storyteller of talent’ Sunday Express
‘An accomplished thriller’ Sunday Times
‘A clever and promising debut’ Mail on Sunday
‘A wonderful, glossy, sexy thriller… masses of plotting, counter-plotting and double doubles, a marvellously brave, beautiful heroine, a devastatingly desirable baddie-hero and the kind of detail that involves you 101 per cent’ Daily Mail
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First British Edition HarperCollins (1999) |
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Into the Fire
Helen Jencks is a beautiful and highly successful dealer at an international investment bank in London, but she has always had to live in the shadow of her financier father's disgrace and disappearance when she was a child. When Helen discovers that she has been set up in the multi-million-dollar scam, she knows that the world will assume that she is guilty. Rather than fight to prove her innocence at this stage, she decides to follow her instincts and go in search of her father.
Helen's godfather, Dai Morgan, arranges for her to stay with Victor Maldonado, the man who helped her father start a new life in Peru over twenty years ago. However, he warns Helen to be wary of Maldonado and not to reveal to him who she is until she is absolutely sure that she can trust him. Peru is a dangerous place, and past alliances may not have stood the test of time. Already, Helen can see she is jumping out of the frying pan…
Maldonado's house is a tranquil haven as Helen assimilates the vibrant, exotic, shocking and frightening life she finds in Peru. Yet she wonders exactly who this man is and why his house is protected by high-security fences, dogs and armed guards. As her fear and uncertainty increase, Helen realises that she must get away from Maldonado out into the vast country of the Incas that has swallowed her father. Only here, in a desperate and gruelling fight for her life, will Helen Jencks find the answer to the questions that have haunted her life. Whether she can survive to use the information is another story...
‘A fan of Graham Greene and John le Carré, Linda Davies’ specialty is the link between banking and the secret service… Into the Fire uses fraud as the springboard that catapults its feisty, aikido-kicking heroine into a steamy espionage plot that reaches its apex at the Inca temple of Machu Picchu’ Financial Times
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First British Edition HarperCollins (1998) |
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Nest of Vipers
Sarah Jensen - smart, ambitious, and beautiful - is one of the most successful currency traders in London. When the Governor of the Bank of England invites her to his office explaining that he suspects someone at the notoriously cut-throat inter-continental bank of corrupt trading practices, she's not entirely surprised. When he asks her to go 'undercover' for him, working at the bank to discover the source, the challenge proves too hard to resist, and Sarah agrees to go along.
She soon uncovers clues to an illegal scheme reaping multimillion dollar profits for a small group of corrupt traders, and begins secretly gathering evidence to expose it. But when two people close to her are murdered, Sarah realises that there's much more at stake than meets the eye, and that the extent of the fraud she's discovered goes way beyond the world of merchant banking…
Combining high-speed suspense with authentic financial detail, Linda Davies brilliantly conveys the seductive world of high-stakes dealmaking. Nest of Vipers is a gripping debut thriller.
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First British Edition Orion (1996) |
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A Wilderness of Mirrors
Two beautiful women - one banker, the other an undercover agent ... a diamond mine in Vietnam ... a corrupt Hong Kong businessman ... and the spymaster behind them all ... These strands are brilliantly interwoven to form the plot of Linda Davies' extraordinary new thriller.
Robbie Frazer is the target - a Hong Kong businessman of legendary wealth, and vast multi-national interests, but he has become corrupt, trading arms with the Chinese, extorting what he needs from people by violence and blackmail. MI6 want to trap him, and Andrew Stormont is the man chosen to mastermind it. The bait - a diamond mine in Vietman. The lure - two women, once friends at Oxford. The first, Eva Cunningham, is an undercover agent, and reformed heroin junkie, with good reason to hate Frazer. The second is Cassie Stewart, a high-flying venture capitalist in the City; she can provide finance for the mission. What she does not know is that, along with Eva, she will become a key player in the game to trap Frazer - a game which will climax in a terrifying hunt-to-kill pursuit in the Vietnam jungle.
About The Author
Linda Davies graduated from Oxford in 1985 and spent the next seven years as a merchant banker. She has lived in New York for a year as well as travelling extensively through Western and Eastern Europe. Linda Daview gave up her City job to write full time. After living in Peru for the last two years, she has recently returned to London.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Something Wild
(Headline,
2001)
(Sarah Jensen)
Into the Fire
(HarperCollins,
1999)
Nest of Vipers
(HarperCollins,
1998)
A Wilderness of Mirrors
(Orion,
1996)
Something Wild
by Linda Davies
