Nick Louth is a UK best-selling thriller writer, award-winning financial journalist and an investment commentator. A 1979 graduate of the London School of Economics, he went on to become a Reuters foreign correspondent in 1987. It was an experience at a medical conference in Amsterdam in 1992, while working for Reuters, that gave him the inspiration for his debut thriller Bite, which was published in 2007 and went on to become a best-seller in 2014. Freelance since 1998, he has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle and Money Observer, and has published seven other books. Nick Louth is married and lives in Lincolnshire, UK.A new thriller, Heartbreaker, was launched as an e-book in June and a paperback in October 2014.