"Martin Baker, journalist and writer, has just published the novel ""Meltdown"" that has predicted the financial scandal that the French bank Societe Generale is currently facing. ....Meltdown, a fast-moving suspense novel based in Paris and set in the world of high finance, is the first of a trilogy featuring academic-cum-sleuth, Samuel Spendlove. Meltdown is a story of quest, love and moral retrospection. Sent by a powerful media baron to unearth the truth about the suspected market manipulation of the shares in a publishing company, Samuel Spendlove stumbles upon a far bigger, infinitely more dangerous plot to bring down the world?s financial markets.....As a journalist, Martin Baker writes the City Eye column in The Independent on Sunday, and a weekly management profile in Thursday's Daily Telegraph. He also writes regularly for Arena magazine, and occasional main paper and business profiles for The Observer."
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