Matt Lynn is a British thriller writer and financial journalist. He is the author of the 'Death Force' series of novels. The series started with Death Force in 2009, and continues with Fire Force published in 2010 and also includes Shadow Force, Ice Force and Lethal Force. As Matthew Lynn he is the author of Insecurity, published in 1997, and The Watchmen, published in 1998. As James Harland, he published The Month of the Leopard in 2001, dedicated to Isabella. Before that, as Matthew Lynn, he wrote two business books, The Billion-Dollar Battle: Merck v. Glaxo and Birds of Prey: Boeing v.Airbus. He is also the author of Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis, published in late 2010.

Matthew Lynn is also a columnist for Bloomberg News

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, and a regular contributor to The Spectator

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. For most of the 1990s, he worked for The Sunday Times

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, for the last three years as a profile columnist. His "London Eye" column began appearing weekly in MarketWatch

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in June, 2011.

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