Martin F.D. Baker

Author & Journalist

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Martin Baker is an author, screenwriter and journalist.

Meltdown, the first of a trilogy of novels set against the backdrop of crisis in the world financial system, was published in hard back in January 2008 as Macmillan's lead title. The paperback was published in November. A second novel, set in gangster-capitalist Moscow, will be published in 2009. The third in the trilogy is set in Shanghai.


Martin has been commissioned by a major Hollywood producer to develop the screenplay of Meltdown

Reaction to Meltdown

"Exciting, intriguing, well-crafted: the business!"  - Duncan Bannatyne of  BBC TV's Dragons' Den

"A brilliant and accurate insight into the cut-throat world of financial high-flyers. I couldn't put it down." -
Max Clifford, publicist

"Let's take a real writer to the pub!" Hear Martin on the Chris Evans Show, BBC Radio 2

"Publishing moves at a glacial pace,"  And in conversation with John Humphrys and Sir Peter Hall on the Today Programme, BBC Radio 4

"Books that attempt to convey the atmosphere of a City trading floor and succeed are extremely rare. On the fiction shelves, I can't think of any … Baker's may be the first.
His account of the enormous, calculated play that gives the book its name is compelling and more importantly, utterly convincing." -
Evening Standard

"A pacy plot, convincing detail and exotic locations pack this financial thriller." - Daily Mirror

"All the ingredients are there - fervid scenes on the dealing floor, a murder, a plot to destabilise the world financial system.." - The Times

"With so many thrillers clamouring for our attention, something special is needed to rise above the crowd - and on the evidence of Meltdown, Martin Baker has just what it takes... splendid, fast-moving stuff, in which the stakes move from personal vendettas to