The Elena Text (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780995669932)

THE FILM DIRECTOR who has become a THRILLER WRITER Martin Weitz is an award-winning film-maker turned thriller writer. His hugely popular films on human mysteries, like Brainman, The Real Rainman and The Musical Genius have been top-rating TV shows in over 200 countries and won many prizes, including a BAFTA nomination. In his novel, THE ELENA TEXT, the first volume in the Moses Frank Trilogy, Weitz unravels some of the strange and unforgettable secrets he hasn't been able to reveal in his documentary films - weaving a heady mix of fact and fiction into a sensational new thriller based in Paris, Vienna, Rome and Delphi. He introduces a new 21st century hero - the charismatic Moses Frank, a rags to riches international antiquities dealer who orchestrates the clandestine Jupiter group - an anonymous group of obsessive collectors, shadowy government officials and maverick Vatican agents. Growing up on a diet of James Bond books, Martin Weitz went on to study psychology and philosophy at Oxford, which somehow made him qualified to work on Coronation Street, where he worked with all the stars of the no. 1 TV soap. He later becoming an investigative journalist for ITV's World In Action, helping to uncover corporate corruption, national dangers and the abuse of power. Here he discovered that secrecy, subterfuge and sometimes even pure deception were amongst the daily tools of the investigative journalist's trade. "Getting the story, nailing the villain was everything". For Martin Weitz it has felt a natural progression to journey from film-directing to writing fiction. "For me every chapter in my book is like a scene in a film. Moreover, many of the larger than life characters I have met both in front, and behind the camera, have provided me with wonderful material for the characters in my books. It's an old cliché but "truth is stranger than fiction". MARTIN WEITZ's TOP SIX AUTHORS: Dan Brown, Ian Fleming, Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Jo Nesbo, Stig Larsson.