Martin Fraser

After nearly 38 years working for Barclays Bank International Ltd, subsequently Barclays Bank Plc, one of the largest banks in the world, Martin Fraser took his chance and the opportunity to follow his dream.

Born in 1961, he developed a lifelong passion for history, reading, films, music, photography and sport, which helped to fuel Martin’s imagination and fill his inquiring mind with possibilities. With both parents, older brother and uncle, all writers or musicians, it was inevitable that Martin should harbour an artistic seed waiting to germinate and burst onto the world.

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In 2022, that dream was realised with the completion of his first novel, The Shadow of the Albatross, a fast-moving international thriller set in the millionaire's playground of nearby Sandbanks in Dorset, Central London, and Wimbledon Village, featuring nefarious billionaire Olga Devereux. In 2023, Martin completed the first follow-up novel, entitled The Cerberus File, set in London, Poole, and Jersey. Plans are already well advanced for the as-yet-untitled third novel to feature MI5 Intelligence Officer Greg Travers.

Martin, who lives in Dorset with his beloved rescue dog Oscar, says, If you finish the last page, and don't think 'that was great', then I've not done my job properly. It's an obvious thing to say, but a thriller should thrill; if it doesn’t, what’s the point?”