• Financial Forensics - QuickPress

    Corporate investigation may lack the glamour of Bond and Bourne, but the two worlds aren’t so far removed.

    Corporate investigation may lack the glamour of Bond and Bourne, but the two worlds aren’t so far removed.  Former Kroll analyst Chris Morgan Jones tells The Independent’s Tim Walker why.  Due diligence and forensic accounting don’t set the pulse racing like, say, the trailer for the latest 007 movie, so it’s quite a feat for Morgan Jones to have conceived a thriller about business intelligence that is genuinely thrilling. His debut novel, An Agent of Deceit, sees corporate investigator Ben Webster sent to explore the dealings of a shady Russian oligarch. Like vintage Le Carré, it takes the reader on…