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= Christopher Hepworth =

Christopher Mark Heptinstall (born 10 September 1961), known by the pen name Christopher Hepworth is a professional negotiator and procurement manager who has used his experience working for a number of multinational corporations to write two novels The Sleepwalker Legacy and The Nocnista Agenda. As a procurement manager, his procurement team was awarded three Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Australasia (CIPSA) Excellence Awards between 2007 and 2013.

Life and career
Christopher Mark Heptinstall was born on 10 September 1961, in Hepworth, West Yorkshire, England to Barrie and Peggy Heptinstall.

In 1968, the Heptinstall family moved to Kitwe in Zambia and then to Lusaka, Zambia in 1971. Barrie and Peggy remained in Lusaka for the remainder of their lives. Christopher attended Red House School in Moor Monkton, North Yorkshire and later Oundle school near Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Heptinstall studied Systems and Management at the City University in 1979 and then completed a Masters degree in Computer Studies at the University of Essex in 1984.

Heptinstall worked as a procurement manager for IBM in Havant, Hampshire and Goldman Sachs in London before emigrating to Sydney, Australia in 1995 with his wife Anne. They have four children. Heptinstall continues to work as a procurement manager and has held positions in the banking, building, travel and insurance sectors. His procurement department won the 2007 Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Australasia (CIPSA) Excellence Award for Best Supplier Partnership, the 2008 Excellence Award for Best Example of Socially Responsible Procurement and the 2013 Excellence Award for Best Cross Functional Team.

Author
The Christopher Hepworth books are conspiracy/financial thrillers based on the author's experience of working as a professional negotiator for large multinational companies. The hero in both books is Sam Jardine who is a procurement manager with an extraordinary talent for negotiation. In each of the novels, Jardine finds himself embroiled in world threatening conspiracies brought about by his employers against whom he must use his negotiation skills to bring about a resolution to the crisis.

His first novel, The Sleepwalker Legacy held the number one position in three separate genres on Amazon.com (historical, financial and conspiracy thrillers) and was ranked in the top 200 bestselling Amazon books overall. It achieved the ranking of 57th position on the bestselling free list on Amazon.com.au. The book tells the story of Sam Jardine's fight to destroy a dangerous drug manufactured by a fictional pharmaceutical company that could change the nature of humanity forever.

His second novel The Nocnista Agenda held 87th position in the Amazon.com best-selling free list and was set against the backdrop of war torn Donetsk, Ukraine. Sam Jardine uncovers a conspiracy to restore the Tsarist Rurikid regime personified by the notorious Ivan the Terrible.

Works

 * The Sleepwalker Legacy (2015)
 * The Nocnista Agenda (2015)