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Computer expert Conor Morgan devises the supreme credit card robbery to win the ultimate ransom. But he's unleashed the most sinister killer since Jack the Ripper.

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“Bankers who hire money hungry geniuses should not always express surprise and amazement when some of them turn around with brilliant, creative and illegal means of making money.”

~ Linda Davies, investment banker and bond trader turned novelist, in a 1997 speech to central bankers and financiers at a conference on the European Monetary Union in Amsterdam.

The story for Dancing on the Brink of the World came about in a similar way.

Part of Andrew's job description as a realtime systems troubleshooter in San Francisco was a remit to detect bank and card fraud of all kinds, either within the company, or any of its 21,000 member banks, in every corner of the world. During graveyard shift lulls, Andrew had the opportunity for many in-depth discussions with colleagues about all aspects of fraud, and each came up with ingenious ways whereby opportunists with inside information could rob the major credit card companies blind.

Andrew ran the scenario that now appears in Dancing on the Brink of the World past some of the best minds in the business. First they laughed. Then they thought about it, and marvelled at the audacity and complexity of the plot.

Unanimously, they agreed: this could really work.

That's when Andrew began amassing authentic detail to plot his novel about a neXus takedown, a conspiracy thriller with a metaphysical twist, set in the no-limit, high stakes world of computer crime, with San Francisco and London backdrops.