Nicola Monaghan

Nicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon.

[citation needed] Monaghan has written screenplays for Council Child Productions, including Starcross[1][2] and Margie's Garden.

It is set in the City of London in the late 1990s and concerns Frankie Cavanagh, a LIFFE futures trader, working and playing hard and trying to keep up with the boys.

The story takes place as the financial world begins to be taken over by electronic trading on screens and traders struggle to cope with this transition.

One of Jack's richest clients wants to own a very rare trading card, The Okinawa Dragon, but it belongs to a Japanese businessman who is not prepared to sell.