David Lender Author About David Lender

Espionage and White Collar Crime Thriller Author

Ex-Wall Street Insider and Pitbull Poppi. I’m a pull-no-punches thriller author of vigilantly-researched espionage and white collar crime. My series and standalone novels are inspired by more than 25 years on Wall Street. Now I use my insider’s knowledge of the characters and intrigues that inhabit that sharp-elbowed world to create stories of corporate power brokers, CEO bullies, megalomaniacs and con artists.

I write about financial fraudsters, male and female spies and assassins, and the gritty underdogs that take them on. I also Tweet and blog from northeastern Pennsylvania with my rescue pitbull, Styles.

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David Lender is the bestselling author of fast-paced thrillers within the genres of international spies and white collar crime. He earned his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. A former investment banker with over 25 years of experience on Wall Street, he worked in mergers and acquisitions for Merrill Lynch, Rothschild, and Bank of America. He began writing in the late 1990s, and his first book, Trojan Horse, sold over a hundred thousand copies. With over a dozen titles sold, he writes from northeastern Pennsylvania with his rescue pitbull, Styles.

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David Lender was born in northern New Jersey. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Art History from the University of Connecticut. His MBA is from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with majors in Finance, Policy and Marketing.

He began his over 25-year career as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch, subsequently working for the Rothschild family’s international investment banking business, and then Banc of America Securities. He also co-founded and ran a private equity boutique, the Cromwell Group, for four years, and built and ran the New York office of boutique investment bank, Cascadia Capital. He specialized in mergers and acquisitions throughout his career.

David began writing in the late 1990s. A friend sent his first novel to a prominent New York literary agent, whose reaction was, “Not bad for somebody who doesn’t know what he’s doing.” She introduced David to a seasoned thriller editor and publisher who had edited Robert Ludlum’s first nine thrillers, including the series of Jason Bourne espionage thrillers. He worked with David for 18 months to pound into him the process of thriller writing.

David is now the bestselling author of thrillers based on his over 25-year career as a Wall Street investment banker. He draws on an insider’s knowledge from his career in mergers and acquisitions for the international settings, obsessively driven personalities and real-world financial intrigues of his novels. His characters range from corporate power brokers to spies, misfits and scam artists. He lives in northeastern Pennsylvania with his beloved rescue pitbull named Styles.