Nick Louth

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Nick Louth is a freelance journalist and author, based in Lincolnshire UK.

Before beginning writing fiction, he was a foreign correspondent for Reuters news agency, and a regular contributor to the Financial Times, MSN, and many financial magazines.


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Nick Louth I'm delighted you enjoyed my other thrillers, and yes, I do have another one coming out (In Kindle only for the moment) on June 7. It's called Mirror …moreI'm delighted you enjoyed my other thrillers, and yes, I do have another one coming out (In Kindle only for the moment) on June 7. It's called Mirror Mirror. Here's the blurb.

Helmand campaign veteran Virgil Bliss is used to earning a living under fire, in dirt, heat and cold. So when he is offered a lucrative job in London as close protection officer to one of the world’s most beautiful women, he can hardly believe his luck. How hard can it be?

Twenty-three-year-old Mira Roskova is admired, envied and desired. With a world-famous footballer for a boyfriend, her rise to celebrity and wealth comes with what her millions of Facebook and Instagram followers imagine to be a perfect life.

But celebrity extracts a price. Mira is assailed on all sides. Trailed by those who adore her, threatened and stalked by strangers online, and beaten up by a man she trusted. Virgil finds this isn’t the cushy number he imagined. Her home isn’t safe, her friends can’t be trusted, and her freedoms melt away. Then there is the enigma of the woman herself: where does the image end and the person begin?

As the threats multiply, the biggest danger is overlooked. In Broadmoor, Britain’s most notorious psychiatric hospital, one man has long been obsessed with Mira. His crimes are so awful that a judge ruled they must never been revealed to the public. But his plans to possess a unique beauty are well advanced, and he has the charm and the cunning to make them work.
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Nick Louth I love the idea that you can take perfect strangers on a guided tour of your imagination - and if you get it right you can enthrall them, frighten the…moreI love the idea that you can take perfect strangers on a guided tour of your imagination - and if you get it right you can enthrall them, frighten them, elicit sympathy, love or hatred - all through the power of the words you deploy. What a privilege! It's the best job in the world. (less)
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The mystery of sales figures

Just yesterday evening I discovered that my indie thriller, Bite, had gone from selling a few dozen copies in a month to over 20,000 which makes it the top-selling medical thriller on Amazon UK.
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The Last Ride by Nick Louth
"DI Jan Talantire and her team are back investigating a case of a missing teen.

Jan is on leave when she hears of a nearby crash. She arrives to find an elderly man administering aid to one teen, and the rest in an overturned car, crashed next to the o" Read more of this review »
The Last Ride by Nick Louth
"The Last Ride is the second book in the DI Jan Talantire series, following up the brilliant “Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle” with another meticulously plotted mystery. I beta read this for the author back in April, then got the final ARC version from NetGal" Read more of this review »
The Body in the Shadows by Nick Louth
"Wow, I thought this was one absorbing and very riveting read! I was drawn into the story right from the first page which immediately took me into a very full on, action packed and thrilling read. DCI Gillard is told by an old informant that a big job" Read more of this review »
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“All worthwhile developments take time. Poverty of ambition is the heaviest chain on man’s soul.”
Nick Louth, Bite

“his first day at Pharmstar, Mazzio had sat in when Iron Jack briefed newly-hired business school graduates on strategy. ‘I want the next Prozac or Valium, the next Lipitor or Zantac,’ Jack had said, striding up and down, his big voice booming across the hall. ‘I want you to scour the world for billion-dollar-a-year blockbusters. Between you and me you can screw the cure for cancer as a financial proposition. What we need are treatments, not cures. Treatments that patients take every day, year in, year out. The clinical areas are obvious: depression, migraine, back pain, arthritis, cholesterol control, weight control. And the target market is only one: first world and affluent.”
Nick Louth, Bite

“Lies and truth share a narrow bed, like birth and death, pain and pleasure.”
Nick Louth, Bite

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