Review
"City types fleeing their own woes by perusing even bigger ones will love new financial-market thriller Latent Hazard. " - Mail on Snuday "Former financials analyst and one-time professor at City University, Piers Venmore-Rowland has published his debut novel, Latent Hazard, set against the background of the banking crisis and market turmoil. Venmore-Rowland uses his knowledge of the City to weave a tale of "conspiracy, suspense and political intrigue"." - Daily Express "This-spooks-meets-financial-markets story comes with a dash of real estate.... Our Verdict: Unmissable" - Estates Gazette
Product Description
Comfortable in the highly-paid world of the City of London, Rafi Khan is a successful fund manager, but his life changes forever when a nearby police station is bombed and three policemen are killed. Convincing evidence, coupled with Rafi’s race and religion, link him directly to the suicide bomber.
While Rafi maintains his innocence; British Secret Service - MI5 - interrogators are convinced of his guilt and are spurred on by senior politicians, who want a high profile and speedy conviction. Just as he fears that no-one will believe him or even listen, an apparently unrelated piece of information comes to the attention of the City of London police. Detective Inspector Kate Adams and her team from the City's economic crime unit gain access to Rafi and soon realize that this information is the key to a terrorist plot which threatens the financial markets.
Together with her team, Kate and Rafi soon find themselves involved in the adrenaline filled world of counter-terrorism. Working against powerful vested interests and no longer sure who they can trust - they face a race against time to unravel an intricate conspiracy. The stakes are high. The terrorists have a score to settle with the British Government and have invested years in careful planning. In their sights is the weakened UK economy… And a multi-billion pound bonanza.
LATENT HAZARD - on the edge lights a thought-provoking fuse… How at risk are we…? A thinking person's thriller.
Praise for Latent Hazard
City types fleeing their own woes by perusing even bigger ones will love new financial-market thriller Latent Hazard. Mail on Sunday
This spooks-meets-financial-markets story comes with a dash of real estate. Our verdict: “Unmissable”. Estates Gazette
The world of banking is on its knees. Across the globe, governments wrestle with unparalleled financial collapse. Meanwhile, the terror threat is ever present. Sound familiar? These are the foothills of a novel by Piers Venmore-Rowland. Two years in the writing, the former City man would appear to be as much soothsayer as author... Piers has put to good use the knowledge gleaned from keeping a weather eye on the financial sector from his various perches down the years. Banks sailing close to the wind in the past gave him the ammunition for a story which turned out to be more pertinent to the present than even he could have imagined. The Sentinel
Former financials analyst and one-time professor at City University, Piers Venmore-Rowland has published his debut novel, Latent Hazard, set against the background of a banking crisis and market turmoil. Venmore-Rowland uses his knowledge of the City to weave a tale of “conspiracy, suspense and political intrigue”. Express
A terrifying world where terrorism and the credit crunch come together is painted in the debut novel by a former Hertford schoolboy. Piers Venmore-Rowland’s book Latent Hazard set against the background of a credit crunch it weaves in with a story about how terrorists may raise cash for their evil deeds. It is a thinking person’s thriller. The book is packed full of action and suspense, but it also gives you something to think about and has a plot that keeps you guessing. Mercury
LATENT HAZARD - on the edge is a revised version of Latent Hazard, Piers Venmore-Rowland’s debut novel, in which those parts of the original book relating to matters financial have been simplified and shortened.