Trading Reality: a gripping financial thriller

Virtual reality is the technology of the future, and Mark Fairfax’s brother Richard runs the leading company in the field worldwide. He has also been murdered.

Mark is a City trader: sharp, young, ambitious. He is left to pick up the pieces at his brother’s company in Scotland’s “Silicon Glen”.

Struggling to keep the business in the black, and with corporate predators closing in, Mark must learn fast and trust no one.

With his brother’s killer on the loose, bankruptcy may prove to be the least of his problems.

This is the second of Michael Ridpath’s bestselling financial thrillers, which have been published in over 30 countries. The author invested in a world-leading British virtual reality company while working for a venture-capital firm in London.

PRAISE FOR MICHAEL RIDPATH’S FINANCIAL THRILLERS:
“Ridpath has that read-on factor that sets bestsellers apart.” - The Guardian

“It is the author's insight into the complexities of the business that gives his novel so much life. And he can write... Yes, he has a winner here.” - The New York Times

“It’ll send a shiver down bankers’ spines.” - Mirror

“The author makes you feel the intensity of the trading floor, the combination of number-crunching and gut instinct that leads people to take big risks, the thrill of playing a hunch and getting it right.” - Los Angeles times Book Review

“For sheer entertainment, there's nothing in the mystery genre to beat a well-constructed thriller… …the new book of Michael Ridpath provides a master-class in how it's done. I read it in one gulp." - The Observer

“As slick and compulsive a piece of storytelling as can be found in the best of blockbuster fiction.” - Sunday Express.