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If Jason Bourne had to invest in shares, this is what would happen. --Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight
Every Stock Exchange CEO's worst nightmare! --Xavier Rolet, CEO London Stock Exchange
Another blockbusting financial thriller from Clem Chambers --Geoff Cutmore, CNBC
Casino capitalism at its wildest, where financial markets and terrorism are an explosive cocktail. --Gaetan Lecointe, TFI France
No one writes better yarns about the city's dark side than Clem Chambers. The Twain Maxim is riveting.
--Zoe Strimpel, CityAM
If you can't quite switch off on holiday, and like your beach read based in the financial markets you know and love, take a look at the second novel from Clem Chambers, chief executive of stocks and shares website ADVFN.com.
Every Stock Exchange CEO's worst nightmare! --Xavier Rolet, CEO London Stock Exchange
Another blockbusting financial thriller from Clem Chambers --Geoff Cutmore, CNBC
Casino capitalism at its wildest, where financial markets and terrorism are an explosive cocktail. --Gaetan Lecointe, TFI France
No one writes better yarns about the city's dark side than Clem Chambers. The Twain Maxim is riveting.
--Zoe Strimpel, CityAM
If you can't quite switch off on holiday, and like your beach read based in the financial markets you know and love, take a look at the second novel from Clem Chambers, chief executive of stocks and shares website ADVFN.com.
His debut work, The Armageddon Trade, was published last year and proved to be a timely tale of market trading and economic collapse. The title of his latest work refers to Mark Twain's quote: "A mine is a hole in the ground with a fool at the bottom and a crook at the top."
The story takes the world of hi-tech City wheeling and dealing and meshes it with the equally uncompromising but infinitely more dangerous environment of the Congolese jungle. Described by a Newsnight journalist as "What would happen if Jason Bourne had to invest in shares", it's a thriller with more than a touch of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré. --Afterhours
'A page-turner with jeopardy around every corner' --THE WHARF
'A thriller with more than a touch of Ian Fleming and John le Carre' --DIRECTOR MAGAZINE
'if Jason Bourne had to invest in shares, this is what would happen' --Paul Mason, Economics Editor Newsnight BBC 2
'Every Stock Exchange CEO's worst nightmare!"' --Xavier Rolet, CEO of the London Stock Exchange
'No one writes better yarns about the city's dark side than Clem Chambers. The Twain Maxim is riveting' --Zoe Strimpel, CityAM
'The Twain Maxim will scare the pants off even the most hardened investor'
--Updata's David Linton, UK's leading technical analyst
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A billion dollars is a lot of money. But not for Jim, a trading whizz kid. While buying into a new mine in Congo, his broker has gone missing in the jungle. Baz Mycock is a shady mining promoter who will stop at nothing to part speculators with their money. Barron Mining could be just the killing he has always planned. ''Man bites Dog'' is a Congolese child soldier, trapped and enslaved by a conflict of unprecedented brutality. In The Twain Maxim, their paths cross under the malevolent gaze of Nyiragongo, Africa's most volatile volcano.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great read which is fast moving and continues with the characters from the previous book. Gives an insight into the dealings of the super rich and some of the skullduggery going on behind the scenes of the worlds stock markets.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Clem Chambers is the CEO of ADVFN, Europe's number one stocks and shares website. He is also an amazing writer, in the mould of Grisham.
His latest book, The Twain Maxim, is the perfect Fathers Day Gift. Trust me, about a week in, Your Dad will start to really thank you. It's that good!
The story centres around a Congolese mine and it's dodgy promoter, Baz Mycock. The mine is a scam and Mycock is out to fleece as many as he can in the stocks and shares trading world. The hero of the story, Jim, is a city whizzkid, with uncanny and unrivalled trading skills. He is so good at this that money is no longer an object to him.
He buys into Mycock's mine, but his suspicious broker wants a closer look and promptly disappears. Jim has no choice but to investigate further. This leads to heaps of danger, adventure and some pretty scary scenarios. Clem Chambers experiences in the real world help to turn this work of fiction into something very tangible. Some of the trading described in the book is riveting in itself.
Along with other leading characters like "Man bites Dog" - a congolese child soldier, a pygmie tribe, a proper-hard love interest and the mighty Doombahs, this is one major page turner.
(What's a doombah? I'm not telling, read the book....they are very, very cool though!)
This book is so good, I am surprised Hollywood hasn't come calling. It has it all - danger, suspense, humour, great characters and a perfect ending.
Get your Dad a copy at amazon, it's a belter!
READER COMMENTS:
His latest book, The Twain Maxim, is the perfect Fathers Day Gift. Trust me, about a week in, Your Dad will start to really thank you. It's that good!
The story centres around a Congolese mine and it's dodgy promoter, Baz Mycock. The mine is a scam and Mycock is out to fleece as many as he can in the stocks and shares trading world. The hero of the story, Jim, is a city whizzkid, with uncanny and unrivalled trading skills. He is so good at this that money is no longer an object to him.
He buys into Mycock's mine, but his suspicious broker wants a closer look and promptly disappears. Jim has no choice but to investigate further. This leads to heaps of danger, adventure and some pretty scary scenarios. Clem Chambers experiences in the real world help to turn this work of fiction into something very tangible. Some of the trading described in the book is riveting in itself.
Along with other leading characters like "Man bites Dog" - a congolese child soldier, a pygmie tribe, a proper-hard love interest and the mighty Doombahs, this is one major page turner.
(What's a doombah? I'm not telling, read the book....they are very, very cool though!)
This book is so good, I am surprised Hollywood hasn't come calling. It has it all - danger, suspense, humour, great characters and a perfect ending.
Get your Dad a copy at amazon, it's a belter!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thoroughly enjoyed reading both of Clem Chambers books. The Twain Maxim reads as a sequel to the Armageddon Trade where the characters are introduced and the background for the lead character is developed. Chambers is the CFO of ADVFN a web site for Forex traders and his first step into fiction is the Armageddon Trade which mixes Forex trading with an adventure that keeps the reader enthralled. Couldn't wait to read Twain Maxim which took the character further as Fleming did with Bond in each episode. Waiting for number 3 in 2011!
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