Michael Ridpath

Michael Ridpath is the British author of various thrillers based around the world of high finance. He was born in Devon in 1961 and grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at Millfield School and Merton College, Oxford where he obtained first class honours in Modern History, and represented the University at athletics. He spent eight years working as a bond trader at an international bank in the City of London. Michael Ridpath lives in north London with three children and his wife, Barbara, former Managing Director, Europe, of Standard and Poor's, and currently Chief Executive of the International Centre for Financial Regulation. His latest work is the first book in the Fire and Ice series about an Icelandic detective called Magnus Jonson.

Bibliography

• The Marketmaker
• Free to Trade ^[1][2][3]
• Final Venture
• Trading Reality
• The Predator
• Fatal Error

Alex Calder

• On The Edge^[4]
• See No Evil

Fire and Ice

• Where the Shadows Lie (published by Corvus 6/2010)

References

1. ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/21483225.html?dids=21483225:21483225&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+11%2C+1995&author=By+John+North&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=New+novels+display+uncanny+timing+Free+To+Trade+By+Michael+Ridpath+HarperCollins%2C+346+pages%2C+%2430+The+Stonebreakers+By+Philip+Hook+General%2C+314+pages%2C+%2429.95+Higher+Authority+By+Stephen+White+Penguin%2C+454+pages%2C+%2429.99&pqatl=google
2. ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22716297.html?dids=22716297:22716297&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+12%2C+1995&author=David+Ignatius&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Prowling+After+Profits+Three+new+thrillers+illustrate+the+dangers+of+dramatizing+the+lives+of+people+who+spend+their+lives+staring+at+he+Quotron+screen+BOMBARDIERS%3A+A+Novel+of+Business%2C+By+Po+Bronson+%28Random+House%3A+%2422%3B+336+pp.%29+NEST+OF+VIPERS%2C+By+Linda+Davies+%28Doubleday%3A+%2423%3B+272+pp.%29+FREE+TO+TRADE%2C+By+Michael+Ridpath+%28HarperCollins%3A+%2423%3B+352+pp.%29&pqatl=google
3. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1995/b341329.arc.htm
4. ^ http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertainment-old/books/2005/04/08/crash-of-city-high-flyer-115875-15377487/

External links

• Michael Ridpath's homepage

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