The Insider

THE INSIDER is a fast paced thriller set in the world’s financial markets, principally London and Rio de Janeiro. In the high stakes world of financial traders, the prospect of a large financial loss drives a group of bankers to take desperate measures to avoid financial ruin from derivative bets gone wrong. An accomplished bond trader with London investment bank Weinstein Reiss, Joe McGowan is drawn into a deadly trading game of life and death across three continents.

THE INSIDER is a faced paced thriller set in the world’s financial markets, principally London and Rio de Janeiro. In the high stakes world of financial traders, the prospect of a large financial loss drives a group of bankers to take desperate measures to avoid financial ruin from derivative bets gone wrong. An accomplished bond trader with London investment bank Weinstein Reiss, Joe McGowan is drawn into a deadly trading game of life and death across three continents

Trained as a lawyer in the United States, he has worked in the International Debt Capital Markets for two decades, principally as a bond trader in London, New York, Paris and Rio de Janeiro . Having written the informative nonfiction work entitled The Money Markets (Financial Times Publications 1998), this is his first work of fiction. While working as a banker, he studied Creative Writing at Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design in London.