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About Linda Davies
With the publication of her debut novel, Nest of Vipers, a book that would become a celebrated international bestseller, Linda Davies launched a new genre and a new career. But long before the global book deals and stellar reviews in the New York Times, Linda was logging 80 hour work weeks as one of the first women investment bankers in the City of London. At nights and weekends, she’d squeeze in time working on her first novel.
Born in Scotland and raised in South Wales, Linda inhaled books as child and dreamed of becoming a writer. But she was the daughter of an economist and a homemaker, and therefore, raised to be practical. So she went into investment banking instead. For the next eight years she worked in the City of London where she saved her running away money. One day, to her horror, she figured out a way to commit the perfect financial crime. After considering it for 3 seconds, she opted to instead write a novel about it.
18 months later, she decided to confront reality and test whether it really had been wise to give up her day job. She pitched her book to an agent... A week later he presented her with a stunning book deal that would see Nest of Vipers published in over 30 territories and optioned by MGM Studios. Since publishing Nest of Vipers, Linda Davies has gone on to publish twelve more books, seven for adults and five for children, which collectively have sold millions of copies and won various awards.
She has lived in Peru and the Middle East with her husband and three children. In 2005, in what could have been ripped from the pages of her own books, she and her husband were kidnapped, interrogated and held prisoner in Iran. She went on to write about this experience and what she learned from it in her first work of non-fiction, Kidnapped.
Linda’s fast-paced page turners explore risk, identity, temptation and who we really are, when the things we value most have been taken away.
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“If John Grisham were female, 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." The New York Times
Sarah Jensen is a brilliant but deeply troubled trader turned MI6 agent who goes undercover to investigate a bank suspected of major international fraud. The mission is far more dangerous than Sarah realizes.
Suspect number one is Dante Scarpirato – rich, smart, uncomfortably attractive. Sarah’s investigation leads her deep into a world of deceit, ruthless power brokers and a doomed relationship with Scarpirato.
As Sarah confronts criminals who will stop at nothing – even murder – to prevent her from finding the truth, she must confront her own deep and twisted secrets that have haunted her since childhood... But provide the only path to safety and redemption.
Heralded by USA Today as the most talked about book of the year, Nest of Vipers is an international bestseller that launched the financial thriller genre and is written by one of the first women to step into the arena of global high finance.
“Page turner.” Vanity Fair
“Masterful misdirection." The Washington Post
“Page turner.” Vanity Fair
“Masterful misdirection." The Washington Post
“Something Wild is absolutely brilliant. It kept me awake till dawn.” Penny Vincenzi
We last met her in Nest of Vipers, Linda Davies’ best-selling thriller about the troubled trader turned MI6 agent. Brilliant, brave with a destructive addiction to risk, Sarah Jensen is woman with a host of secrets and a haunted past.
Now Sarah Jensen is back, 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’s forced to take a dangerous assignment investigating a string of high-profile rapes. Determined to get justice for the victims, Sarah uses herself as bait. As Sarah’s high-risk strategy brings her closer to uncovering the perpetrator, it plunges her – and her son – into unimaginable danger.
Heralded by USA Today for its “pulse pounding suspense,” Something Wild takes us on a high-speed journey from the wilds of Wyoming to the echoing canals of Venice.
“If John Grisham were female, 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.” The New York Times
“Fabulous characters.” The New York Times
“Davies once again proves expert in crafting absorbing suspense.” Publishers Weekly
When you marry the wrong man, your death is the most final settlement of all.
Orphaned as a child, heiress Morganna Hutton dreams of creating the perfect family she never had. Sheltered, isolated and naïve, she falls in love with the handsome Archie Edge, but her desire for a loving home blinds her to his true character.
After she gives birth to their daughter, she begins to suspect Archie’s real motive is to destroy her and use their daughter to unlock her fortune.
When she uncovers the truth, Archie tries to kill her, and goes into hiding with their daughter.
From the grand houses of Long Island, to the wilds of Scotland, we follow Morganna as she discovers the courage and ruthlessness she needs if she has any hope of tracking them down and taking back her daughter – the one person who taught her the real meaning of love.
“A taut, sexy thriller.” Evening Standard“Page turner.” Vanity Fair
“Fast and suspenseful.” Cosmopolitan
From the international best-selling author who launched a genre.
“Little will turn out as it first appears. Davies shows masterful misdirection.” The Washington Post
Meteorologist and big wave surfer Dr Gwen Boudain devotes her life to predicting extreme weather events so she can protect people in their path from the devastating ravages.
But her world-leading technology captures the attention of a powerful venture capitalist, a dangerous jihadi group, Wall Street speculators and a handsome but secretive journalist, Dan Jacobsen. They all want to steal and exploit her technology for their own ends. But Gwen knows that if her life’s work falls into the in the wrong hands, people will die.
Unsure of who to trust, Gwen teams up with Jacobsen in a desperate attempt to take back control of her technology from people who are willing to kill for it.
“Fabulous characters.” The New York Times
“Sex, murder, meteorology... A brilliantly crafted thriller filled with characters who are authentically good – and bad." Former Secretary of Defence William S. Cohen
“Page turner.” Vanity Fair
From the international best-selling author who launched a genre.
“Fabulous characters." The New York Times
“Davies’s prose is fast and tight. I found Wilderness of Mirrors so compelling I read it long into the night.” Sunday Express
Four years after battling the drugs that nearly destroyed her, Eva Cunningham is ready for vengeance. Under deep cover for the Secret Intelligence Service, she is using a diamond mine in Vietnam – and herself – as bait to attract Robie Frazer, a ruthless international entrepreneur suspected of assisting China’s illegal trade in nuclear weapons. Camouflaged by wealth and respectability, Frazer is the drug lord whose narcotics enslaved Eva even as she infiltrated his vast empire. Now she’s willing to pay any price to destroy him. Even if it means sleeping with the enemy...
As Eva’s investigation brings her closer to Robie, she is shaken by the torrent of passion he unleashes. She's determined to destroy his drug trade and terrified she’ll slip back into addiction herself. Driven to even greater risk, Eva walks the line between desire and deception, one step away from discovery – and certain death.
“Sleek, cinematic plotting, sexual intrigue and derring do.” Entertainment Weekly
“Davies creates characters as intriguing as they are reprehensible, seducing the reader with a story of passion, power, and the price of life choices.” People
“Fast and suspenseful.” Cosmopolitan
- The Daily Telegraph Top 45 YA Books of 2015
- 2016 Mal Peet Children's Book of the Year Award, East Anglian Children's Book Award
- 2016 Historical Association Young Quills Award Nominee
- Shortlisted for the 2017 Tir na n-Og Awards (Books Council of Wales)
- Voted USBBY Outstanding International Book of 2017 (2017.3,Grades 6-8)
- Voted Bank Street CBC Best Children's Book of the Year(2017.4d, Twelve to Fourteen, Fiction, Fantasy)
- 2017 Texas Lone Star Reading List
From the international best-selling author who launched a genre.
“Fabulous characters.” The New York Times
“Little will turn out as it first appears. Davies shows masterful misdirection.” The Washington Post
After growing up in the shadows of her father, a suspected fraudster who disappeared when she was a child, Helen Jencks builds herself a picture-perfect life as a successful City of London trader.
But her past makes her the ideal fall guy for a multi-million dollar scam. Overnight, the life Helen created is destroyed.
Disgraced and devastated, Helen escapes to Peru where she launches an investigation to salvage the only thing she has left: her good name. As she pieces together who set her up and why, she unearths the terrifying truth of what really happened to her father. As she seeks redemption for herself and her father, she makes dangerous enemies who want the past to stay buried.
Aided by the beguiling and secretive Evan Conner, Helen’s investigation takes her on a perilous journey through Peru’s legendary mountains and cloud forests where her past and present collide.
“Into the Fire catapults the feisty, Aikido-kicking heroine into a steamy espionage plot that reaches its apex at the Inca temple of Machu Picchu.” Financial Times
"Immensely entertaining!" Kirkus Reviews
“A cracking, fast-paced thriller. Excellently researched. I thoroughly enjoyed it.” General Sir Peter de la Billière KCB KBE DSO MC & Bar (former Director SAS)
In this essential, fascinating and sometimes shocking book, Linda discusses what money really is, how global financial systems impact our everyday lives, what we can do about it and how we can bolster our financial resilience.
IN SHORT: HOW TO MASTER MONEY SO THAT IT DOES NOT MASTER US!
A real-life memoir from international bestselling author Linda Davies
She was a bestselling author whose thrillers are celebrated by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vanity Fair. Strong, independent and accomplished, she lived a happy life she had worked hard to build. But on a fateful day she was thrown into a situation that could have been ripped from one of her own books.
She was on the maiden voyage of her new catamaran alongside her husband when the boat’s captain unknowingly sailed into sharply contested waters off the coast of Iran. Within minutes, a dozen heavily armed Iranian marines stormed the boat and took them prisoner. Over the next two weeks, Linda was held hostage by one of the most feared regimes in the world, separated from her 3 young children, terrified for her life, with no reason to expect anything but the worst.
In this riveting book, she tells the story of her kidnap, interrogation and imprisonment in candid and shocking detail. With clarity and black humour, Davies pulls back to layers to reveal not only the physical hardships she endured but the harrowing psychological path she took to understand who she truly was when everything has been taken away.
Praise for Linda Davies’ best-selling books:
“Page turner.” Vanity Fair
“Fast and suspenseful.” Cosmopolitan
“Fabulous characters.” The New York Times
"A joyful fantasy… steeped in the heritage of the region. Wonderful." Time Out Dubai
The fourth book in Linda Davies’ beloved Djinn Quartet brings Finn Kennedy his biggest and most dangerous challenge yet...
When Obsidian, the Dark Rock Djinn, discovers that Finn has trapped the three other Dark Djinn, he kidnaps Finn and tries to force him to reveal their location, so that he might free them and in exchange take their powers, thereby making himself King of the Djinn.
Finn escapes and goes in search of Gaia, the Earth Djinn of light, to enlist her support. Though trying to help him, Gaia unwittingly traps Finn in stone, and Fred and Georgie must travel back in time to search for him. Only, when they find themselves in mortal danger, can Finn find the power to break free and save his friends?
The fourth instalment of Linda Davies’ celebrated Djinn Quartet. Join Finn, Georgie and Fred on their epic adventure through the seas, mountains and wild deserts of Arabia as the children fight to save their world from Dark power in Sea Djinn, Fire Djinn, Storm Djinn and King of the Djinn.
“Five Star! Thrilling, beautifully written books for children. Adults will secretly read them too.” You Magazine" A fast-paced, beautifully descriptive adventure with just the right mixture of compelling characters, well-observed humour and page-turning excitement. The Arabian flavour is perfectly balanced so that the book will appeal to children in Dubai, Arabia and far beyond." Khaleej Times
"A joyful fantasy… steeped in the heritage of the region. Wonderful." Time Out Dubai
Finn Kennedy, the Prince of Atlantis, has to develop a new power in order to combat his most serious threat yet…
‘So my role,’ Finn said, gazing round the Castle of Winds, ‘is to travel back in time to 1923, to the Valley of the Kings, where Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter were excavating Tutankhamen’s tomb, steal into the tomb, nab the Burial Shroud and use it to trap Typhon?’
‘Yes,’ answered the Djinn of the Winds. ‘Are you ready?’
The third instalment of Linda Davies’ celebrated Djinn Quartet. Join Finn, Georgie and Fred on their epic adventure through the seas, mountains and wild deserts of Arabia as the children fight to save their world from Dark power in Sea Djinn, Fire Djinn, Storm Djinn and King of the Djinn.
“Storm Djinn is a sand-swept carpet ride that you’ll grip tight until the very end. Utterly addictive.” Time Out Dubai
“The latest instalment is as action-packed and thrilling as ever – Storm Djinn is a romping page-turner from beginning to end. Davies weaves her magic once more in this edge-of-the-seat, fast-paced adventure that will have kids reading under the sheets into the small hours.” Time Out Kids Dubai
The first full-length contemporary children’s novel to be written and set in the Middle East.
"Dubai's Harry Potter" Emirates Today"A joyful fantasy… steeped in the heritage of the region. Wonderful." Time Out Dubai (chose Sea Djinn as the only children’s book in its Books of the Year 2007)
When Finn Kennedy comes to live in Dubai, he expects to do nothing more adventurous than surf a few good waves. Then he meets Triton, the Sea Djinn, a supernatural being with spectacular powers. Triton reveals that Finn’s parents have been kidnapped at sea by Hydrus, the evil Sea Djinn, who is preparing to wage war against Triton’s and Finn’s worlds in a battle of the Djinns that has been brewing for a thousand years.
Triton recruits Finn to his army and bestows on him some of his own powers. Finn, together with his cousin, Georgina, and his friend, Fred, prepares to travel to the underwater lair of Hydrus, far across the sea in the Dark Kingdom, to rescue his parents and fight Hydrus. Along the way the friends meet Mr Violet, no ordinary teacher, who trains them in the skills they will need if they are to have any chance of surviving. Their training is cut short when they are in grave danger and must escape. They steal a boat and set sail for the Dark Kingdom…
The first instalment of Linda Davies’ celebrated Djinn Quartet. Join Finn, Georgie and Fred on their epic adventure through the seas, mountains and wild deserts of Arabia as the children fight to save their world from Dark power in Sea Djinn, Fire Djinn, Storm Djinn and King of the Djinn.
“Five Star! Thrilling, beautifully written books for children. Adults will secretly read them too.” You Magazine“A fast paced, beautifully descriptive adventure with compelling characters, humour and page-turning excitement.” Khaleej Times
"Breathtaking." Sunday Express
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