Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn (born 1962) is a British thriller writer, financial journalist and publisher. He is the author of the Death Force series of novels.[1] The series started with Death Force in 2009, and continues with Fire Force published in 2010 and also includes Shadow Force.

Career

Lynn was born in 1962 and grew up in Exeter and Dublin, before moving to London. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.[2] After a career as a financial journalist and ghost-writer, which included three number-one best-sellers, he started writing the Death Force series of action-adventure thrillers in 2009. Featuring a group of mercenaries, the series includes Death Force, Fire Force and Shadow Force. The News of the World gave the first book a four-star rating, describing it as “a Boy's-Own adventure guaranteed to get the pulse racing. It is up there with the finest that Andy McNab or Chris Ryan have ever penned.”[3]

Lynn also writes widely on business and economics, including columns in Bloomberg News, MoneyWeek and the Spectator. Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis was published in 2010, and short-listed for the Spear's Book Awards Business Book of the Year.

As James Harland, he published The Month of the Leopard in 2001, dedicated to Isabella.

Before that Matthew Lynn wrote two business books, The Billion-Dollar Battle: Merck v. Glaxo[4] and Birds of Prey: Boeing v. Airbus.[5] He is also the author of Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis, published in late 2010,[6][7][8] and more recently, The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031 (Endeavour Press).[9]

As Matthew Lynn, the writer was also a columnist for Bloomberg News, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. For most of the 1990s, he worked for The Sunday Times, for the last three years as a profile columnist.[10][11] His "London Eye" column began appearing weekly in MarketWatch in June, 2011.[12]

In a 2007 Bloomberg article, Matt Lynn predicted that Apple Inc. "…will sell a few to its fans, but the iPhone won't make a long-term mark on the industry.",.[13]

In 2012, Lynn was also chief executive of Strategy Economics, a London-based consultancy.[9]

In 2018, Lynn set up Endeavour Media, an independent publisher based in London.

His articles and opinions have been used as references by other authors and researchers.[14][15][16][17]

Controversey

When trying to promote his book The Watchmen, Lynn offered the first chapter for free on the website Motley Fool UK. However users on the website objected to his unusual method of publicity and Lynn had to back off.[18]

Personal Life

He has three children, Isabella, Leonora, and Claudia.

References
  1. "Review of Lethal Force". goodreads.com. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  2. Floriet Domus, Balliol College News May 2012
  3. ,Matthew Lynn.Retrieved on 03 Jan 2018
  4. Chambers, Peter, "Mixing heroes and villains - Merck Versus Glaxo", (London. Heinemann, 1991), book review, Management Today, 1 January 1992. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
  5. "Birds of Prey". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  6. "CFA Society Chicago Book Club Discusses Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis by Matthew Lynn". cfa society chicago. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  7. Andrew Moravcsik. "Bust: Greece, the Euro, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis Book Review". Foreign Affairs magazine. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  8. Lynn, Matthew, "Put your money in emerging, stable democracies", MarketWatch, 13 July 2011. See footer. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  9. Lynn, Matthew, "6 reasons Spain will leave the euro first", MarketWatch, 30 May 2012. See footer. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  10. Matthew Lynn archive, Bloomberg. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  11. Matthew Lynn page, Amazon (supplied by author or rep). Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  12. Matthew Lynn archive, MarketWatch. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
  13. Lynn, Matthew, "Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move", commentary, Bloomberg, 14 January 2007.
  14. Dietmar Sternad. "Effective Management". Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  15. edited by CQ Researcher. "Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Selections From CQ Researcher". Retrieved 28 June 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  16. John R. Fozard. "Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences". Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  17. Istvan Meszaros. "Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition". Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  18. Alexander Davidson. "Everyone's Guide to Online Stock Market Investing: The Definitive 12-day Guide". Retrieved 28 June 2020.
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