KEYNOTE -- The Rules of Bestsellerdom CD

Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1961, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, he worked for years at one of Switzerland's largest banks, where he specialized in private banking, and later, mergers and acquisitions. In 1995, he left Switzerland and returned to the United States to pursue a career as an author.

His first novel, Numbered Account (1998), spent twelve weeks on The New York Times best-seller List and was translated into twenty-one languages. A nominee for the Edgar Award for best debut fiction, Numbered Account has to date sold over one and a half million copies worldwide.

He has written four other acclaimed novels, all of which were national best-sellers. In 2006, The Patriots Club won the inaugural "Thriller" award for best novel of the year as voted by the International Thriller Writers Association.

His latest work, Rules of Deception, published by Doubleday in July, was an instant New York Times best-seller, and is being developed by Paramount Pictures and Lorenzo di Bonaventura into a major motion picture.

Reich has served as a consultant to the United States Treasury Department's Counter Terrorism Task Force and has lectured extensively on the subjects of money laundering and terrorist finance.

He lives with his wife and daughters in Southern California. He will present the keynote, "The Rules of Bestsellerdom -- what to do (and not to do) on the road to 'The List'" and a workshop, "The Elements of the Thriller -- a practical guide to writing bestselling suspense fiction."

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