Money Tree

Money Tree is a modern-day thriller set among the glittering canyons of New York and the seething alleyways of New Delhi. At its heart is the story of Anila, a destitute woman in a dying village in central India, and her struggle against the daily embrace of usury. Into her fraught existence blunder two westerners: Ted Saddler, a has-been American reporter living off the faded glory of a Pulitzer Prize, and Erin Wishart, a hard-bitten Scottish banker with a late-developing conscience. As the tension mounts, their three storylines interweave and fuse in a thundering and moving climax.

In pointing up the gulf between rich and poor, and the misguided efforts of western institutions to meddle in developing countries, Gordon pays homage to Professor Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Peace and founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.

Gordon Ferris has been described as ‘The new Ian Rankin’ by the Daily Mail and ‘the natural heir of Stevenson and Buchan’ by Val McDermid. The Observer calls him ‘a wonderfully evocative writer’ and the Independent ‘a writer of real authority…everything speaks of an original voice’. Money Tree is a literary departure for Gordon, the best-selling author of the acclaimed DOUGLAS BRODIE Quartet set in post-War Glasgow. This includes the Kindle #1 bestseller: The Hanging Shed.