David Brewerton, a past winner of the London Business School's Financial Journalist of the Year Award, has spent his life in the media. From his first job as a reporter on a City newswire he has worked his way up to senior editorial positions on four national newspapers.

He has extensive first hand experience of investigative journalism and has also mastered the black art of public relations as a director of London's leading financial PR consultancy.

It is this experience he brings to his writing, to create the intriguing situations and unusual characters who populate the media and business worlds.

Author David Brewerton

The origins of this book lie in a story I covered, as a reporter for a national newspaper, several years ago. An economist working for a science-based company had gone missing following an industry conference. What followed was weeks of speculation about his whereabouts, until he was found, dead, many miles from where he disappeared. The discovery and eventual identification of his body prompted yet more speculation. He was a spy. He was mistaken for a spy. He was suddenly described as a “top scientist”. He was involved in a drugs racket. He was mistaken for a criminal, etc. None of these stories, so far as I am aware, was true.

On some days the public relations people involved were getting in excess of a hundred media calls from reporters, like me, anxious for any snippet, however tiny, to take the story forward.

This prompted me to try to show, through fiction, how a newspaper reporter develops a story, making bricks with the tiniest of straws. Reporters don’t always believe the stories they are required to write, but stories sell newspapers and the British newspaper industry is the most competitive in the world.

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