Linda Davies
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Linda Davies is a British author of thriller fiction. Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford
graduating in 1985, then worked for seven years as an investment banker in New York, London and Eastern Europe. Inspired by her City career, she left to write her first novel, Nest of Vipers. She spent three years living in Peru, and then moved to London with her husband, merchant banker Rupert Wise, and their two sons Hugh and Tommy. She now lives in Dubai with her husband, her two sons, and her daughter Lara.
where they were held prisoner for 13 days. They were finally released on 11 November 2005 after strenuous secret efforts by the British Foreign Office and the Australian Government.
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St Edmund Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Better known within the University by its nickname, "Teddy Hall", the college has a claim to being "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates in any university"...
graduating in 1985, then worked for seven years as an investment banker in New York, London and Eastern Europe. Inspired by her City career, she left to write her first novel, Nest of Vipers. She spent three years living in Peru, and then moved to London with her husband, merchant banker Rupert Wise, and their two sons Hugh and Tommy. She now lives in Dubai with her husband, her two sons, and her daughter Lara.
Trivia
Linda and her husband were sailing on a catamaran in the Persian Gulf when they were intercepted by two Iranian gunboats and taken to IranIran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
where they were held prisoner for 13 days. They were finally released on 11 November 2005 after strenuous secret efforts by the British Foreign Office and the Australian Government.
Novels
- Nest of Vipers, 1994
- Wilderness of Mirrors
- Something Wild
- Into the Fire
- Final Settlement, 2006
- Sea Djinn
- Fire Djinn
- Storm Djinn