Nest of Vipers

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20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, with a preface by the author on the state of the financial industry, its effect on the world, and how Nest of Vipers is as relevant as ever...

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Money is Sarah Jensen’s playground. International markets. She’s one of the most successful foreign-exchange traders in London: brilliant, beautiful, unpredictable—the perfect undercover agent to infiltrate the cutthroat Inter-Continental Bank and investigate questionable trading practices for the governor of the Bank of England. Her target is Dante Scarpirato, a smooth, arrogant high-stakes trader who’s making a killing in—and out of—the market. For Sarah, the ultimate risk-taker, he’s the ultimate risk…

But the multi-million dollar trading scheme she penetrates is only the tip of an international conspiracy, paid for in the currency of blood. Now Sarah, the hunter, is hunted, dangerous prey, determined to bring down the officials who betrayed her—and the assassins who have her in their sights…

-CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LINDA DAVIES AND HER DEBUT NOVEL, NEST OF VIPERS-

“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

“Enough action, financial know-how and international hokey-pokey to satisfy any reader … we get an idea of the coolness, daring and imagination that go into successful high-voltage trading involving hundreds of millions.” —The New York Times

“NEST OF VIPERS SUCCEEDS AS A FINANCIAL THRILLER.” —Business Week

“Linda Davies pops her debut thriller into the microwave and brings it to a near-instant boil…. THIS BOOK’S A CLASS ACT.” —Glamour

“Davies, herself a former merchant banker, does a terrific job of explaining the inner workings of foreign-exchange markets and of creating a sense of the supercharged atmosphere in which the traders do their deals.” —People

“A STYLISH AND VERY CONTEMPORARY British thriller about international finance…. This first novel by young, gorgeous, etc., former banker Linda Davies feels about as real as a James Bond movie, but it satisfies in exactly the same flashy, fast-moving way.” —Mademoiselle

“FAST-PACED FUN … having worked on Wall Street and in London as a merchant banker, the thirty-year-old writer makes that world sound a whole lot more exciting than most of us give it credit for being.” —Chicago Tribune

“UTTERLY FASCINATING when it deals with the giddy, high-risk manipulations of foreign-exchange traders. —Entertainment Weekly

“PULSE-PUSHING YARN … Davies lobs a female dynamo into the mostly male bastions of international finance and the government agencies that stalk those who prey on the markets…. 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

“Davies captures the lure of the [foreign-exchange] game … LOOK FOR THIS ONE TO BE BIG.” —USA Today

“THIS GRIPPING READ reveals a flashy merchant class and a moral void—akin to an upholstered pit in a gambling casino … the game of fast-track money deals is as much an aphrodisiac as power and forbidden sex in this financial thriller.” —Kirkus Reviews