Book info

• Title Trading Reality
• Author Michael Ridpath
• Year 1996
• Genre 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.

Thoughts

I’ve had this in my to read pile for a long time and finally got round to it - it’s a good financial thriller, you have to have a bit of a head for finance to enjoy it I think. Even though the technology being discussed (virtual reality) has moved on a lot from when this was written, you can easily look past how dated it is because there’s always a technology on the horizon that could have the same impact. I think one of the big reveals was really obvious from the start, although I hadn’t connected all of the dots. So it was a serviceable thriller but maybe not perfect.

Rating: 3 / 5