Pass the Parcel

It’s 2008 and the Global Financial Crisis is upon the World … The Establishment turns a blind eye as banks shuffle toxic financial packages around the system to unsuspecting victims…

A hedge fund manager has just placed the biggest bet of his investment career. Market manipulation is suspected, but can he discover who is trying to destroy him before it’s too late?

A hard-working Mexican couple are fighting foreclosure to save their house in San Francisco.

In London, a banker discovers his employer is about to embezzle assets from his brother’s property business.

And, a rising star of British politics is being blackmailed by an ex-professional footballer. When the former player is murdered as well, the politician and his wife become key suspects.

Pass the Parcel is a financial thriller that explores the human psychology around financial decisions and how the lives of a group of people were changed beyond recognition by the financial crash.

Neil started his investment career in the City in the mid-1990s and has worked at various fund management houses in London and Frankfurt. He is a chartered surveyor and chartered financial analyst.

Following his retirement in 2016, he has spent his time writing fiction. Pass the Parcel is the first of a series of financial thrillers that Neil has been working on.

He lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk, with his wife, Michelle; twin boys, Tom and Charlie; and a black Lab – rapidly approaching middle age – called Barney.