Matthew Lynn is an experienced business journalist. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and works at The Sunday Times. He is the author of two best-selling business books, The Billion-Dollar Battle and Birds of Prey. His first novel, Insecurity, was published in 1997. He wrote Month of the Leopard under the pseudonym of James Harland for Simon & Schuster (2002). Matthew is now ghost-writing for a major best-selling author.