Books by Simon Lawder

Simon Lawder's career has brought him into close contact with a wide variety of leaders in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He uses extensive observation and learning to inform his work. Each of his Patrick Cameron stories addresses one of today's Big Unanswered Questions. Under Current (2016) asserts that there are, and have always been, foreign spies - traitors - working inside Whitehall. We just haven't been told. Blue Sand (2018), the prequel to Under Current, explores the abuse of power by big business over our elected politicians. "I want my stories to set the reader thinking, not to frighten them but to stir up debate. Asking a big moral question in the context of a conspiracy thriller, with a fair dusting of rather outrageous characters, is quite a challenge but it's great fun to write." A former advertising agency CEO, leadership coach and international business school lecturer, Simon writes from his home in mid-Somerset, where his insatiable appetite for great food, Bath Rugby and poking his nose into local issues has earned him a mixed reputation. His partner Catriona looks on bewildered.