Tony Salter writes pacy contemporary thrillers. Each explores a different theme, but all share thought-provoking plots and richly painted characters.
Having worked as a manager and chief executive for most of his career, Tony decided in 2015 that writing fiction would become the main focus of his life.
His debut, Best Eaten Cold – a dark psychological thriller – became a bestseller, with more than 93,000 copies downloaded and 2.5 million pages read on Kindle Unlimited. It was followed by the family thriller The Old Orchard, the sequel Cold Intent, and two thrillers featuring MI5 agent Nadia Laroche: Sixty Minutes and The Unicorn.
Along the way, Tony has backpacked around the world twice (once in his twenties and once in his fifties) and learnt six languages, including Norwegian and Greek. He lives near Chichester in West Sussex and writes full-time.
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Tony’s sixth novel is a departure: a book-club historical novel and the first in the Manchuria Trilogy, based loosely on his grandmother’s life in China from 1915 to 1929.
In June 1915, Marjorie Preston, a strong, independent 24-year-old, is obliged to leave England and travel through war-torn Europe to Harbin – a Russian-run railway boom town in Manchuria known as “the Paris of the East”. There she finds herself living between three cultures, Russian, English and Chinese, as the Russian Empire slides towards revolution, China is in flux and Japan presses ever harder on Manchuria’s door.
Normal people, with normal lives, shaped by seismic forces beyond their control. Marjorie has no idea she is living in the crucible where our modern world was forged. She is just doing the best she can.
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