Chris West

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This article is about the crime and general fiction writer. For the Catholic author, see Christopher West.

Chris West (born 1954) is a British writer.

Chris West was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and at the London School of Economics where he studied economics and philosophy. He also played drums for The Oxcentrics a Dixieland revival band that was popular in the 1970's.

West travelled in China, leading to his first book, Journey to the Middle Kingdom in 1991. Following that, he wrote four crime novels set in contemporary China, featuring Wang Anzhuang, a mid-ranking detective in the Beijing Xing Zhen Ke (Criminal Investigation Department) and his wife, Rosina Lin, a nurse at the Capital Hospital.

More recently, West has concentrated on co-authoring books aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses, the first of which was The Beermat Entrepreneur, co-authored with entrepreneur and speaker Mike Southon, and the most recent of which is Think like an Entrepreneur co-authored with entrepreneur Robbie Steinhouse.

West is married with one daughter and lives near Cambridge.

[edit] Books

  • Journey to the Middle Kingdom, Simon and Schuster, 1991. ISBN 0-671-71044-3. (Also Allison & Busby, 2000, ISBN 0-7490-0323-5.)
  • Death of a Blue Lantern, Collins Crime 1994, reissued by Allison and Busby in 2008.
  • Death on Black Dragon River, Collins Crime 1995
  • Red Mandarin, Collins Crime 1997
  • The Third Messiah Allison and Busby 2000
  • The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn a Good Idea into a Great Business, Mike Southon and Chris West. Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN 0-273-65929-4. Also 2005, ISBN 0-273-70454-0.
  • The Boardroom Entrepreneur, Mike Southon and Chris West. Random House Business Books, 2005. ISBN 1-84413-818-6.
  • Sales on a Beermat, Mike Southon and Chris West. Random House Business Books, 2005. ISBN 1-84413-819-4.
  • Finance on a Beermat, Stephen King, Jeff Macklin and Chris West. Random House Business Books, 2006. ISBN 1-905211-03-1.
  • Marketing on a Beermat, (sole author), Random House 2008
  • Think like an Entrepreneur, Robbie Steinhouse and Chris West, Prentice Hall, 2008.

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