The Twain Maxim (ISBN 978-1-84243-341-6) is the second financial thriller by British entrepreneur and author Clem Chambers

Clem Chambers

Clement Hadrian Chambers is a British entrepreneur, author and journalist, known for his involvement in ADVFN, formerly known as the Advanced Financial Network.-Business career:...

, published by No Exit Press. http://www.noexit.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/529 The book's title pays homage

Homage

Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....

 to the classic Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

 quote: "A mine is a hole in the ground with a fool at the bottom and a crook at the top."

The launch of the book coincides with the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death.http://www.randomhouse.biz/international/PDFs/marktwain.pdf

Author

Clem Chambers is an author and journalist, but is best known in his role as CEO of stock

Stock

The capital stock of a business entity represents the original capital paid into or invested in the business by its founders. It serves as a security for the creditors of a business since it cannot be withdrawn to the detriment of the creditors...

s and shares website ADVFN

ADVFN

ADVFN is a financial market website. It provides online data and services to private investors such as stock quotes, charts, news, FOREX, Futures & Options and stock screeners. The site currently covers in excess of 70 stock exchanges from across the globe...

 http://www.advfn.com.

His debut novel, The Armageddon Trade

The Armageddon Trade

The Armageddon Trade is a financial thriller by British entrepreneur and author Clem Chambers, published by No Exit Press.-Author:...

, was published in 2009 http://www.noexit.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/513 and was a timely tale of market trading and economic collapse. It was a very popular read with the hardback version running out on in a day; the paperback was on Amazon's Movers & Shakers list.

Clem is a member of the Curzon Group http://www.thecurzongroup.com, which is dedicated to reviving the traditions of Buchan

Buchan

Buchan is one of the six committee areas and administrative areas of Aberdeenshire Council, Scotland. These areas were created by the council in 1996, when the Aberdeenshire unitary council area was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994...

, Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...

, MacLean and Forsyth

Forsyth

-Oceania:* Forsyth Island, Tasmania, Australia* Lake Forsyth, New Zealand* Forsyth Bluff, Australia, see West Cape Howe National Park-United States:* Forsyth, Georgia, a city* Forsyth, Illinois, a village* Forsyth, Missouri, a city* Forsyth, Montana, a city...

and bring the British thriller back to life in the 21st century.