Corruption Thriller

Crime pays in Thailand. Big time. Corruption and graft is rampant among its power elites. It's mafias, and family crime clans rule. Thai politicians, police, courts and military brass are in their pockets. Preying on foreigners and ripping off their property is one of the lucrative games they play. And if the victim fights back, unpleasant things including serious violence, and death befall them. For Ray Coombs the island of Phuket was paradise. He .married a beautiful girl. He built a beautiful home. Life was perfect. Then the bad men came and took it from him. He fought back. What ...

Mike Villiers was a ten-year-old boy when his father, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Villiers, died with eleven others on a flight from Bangkok that crashed and burned near Saigon in November 1970. A tragic accident they said. Thirty years on Mike comes to believe that it was murder. And he’s looking to find the killers.Thirty years is a long time they tell him. It’s a cold case. The perpetrators will be dead. They tell him to forget about it, and most people would. But Mike’s not a bit like that. He going to Bangkok, the City of Angels and place of his birth with retribution in mind and ...

ORIGINAL STORY, WRITTEN BY A HUMAN The irrepressible Detective Ange Watson is back for the gripping second instalment of the Saltwater Crimes Trilogy. Ange’s return to her beat in Byron Bay certainly doesn’t go to plan. Some deep soul searching is needed when her reputation is left in tatters. Her fixation on the criminal syndicate behind the Namba Heads tragedies leads her to adopt the persona of a shady cop and head north to the glittering Gold Coast. All that glitters is definitely not gold! With some newfound surf buddies to keep her company and aided by a surprising and thrilling ...

Sara Catherine Canton fled the confines of her small hometown years ago, carving out her own life and a career investigating fraud for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Despite being a scion of Wallace Island's most affluent family, she's been content to leave the family fortune, her spendthrift mother, her idiosyncratic brother and her family's prominent role in the community far behind. After her mother's death, she reluctantly comes home to pay her respects before heading back to her own life in Atlanta. But an unexpected event at the funeral reveals all is not well in Wallace Island....

In the charming Southern town of Monticello, justice is just a performance—and the real drama unfolds behind the bench. When three powerful women—a judge, a clerk, and a magistrate—form an unholy alliance to embezzle thousands from the courthouse they run, no one suspects the smiling faces behind the corruption. But as their greed grows bolder and their schemes more brazen, the town busybody with a vendetta starts sniffing around, and secrets that were meant to stay buried begin clawing their way to the surface. Murder in Monticello is a taut, gripping Southern legal thriller brimming...

In The Poster Boy Trial - Book 2 of The Bradley Trials, a gripping legal and political thriller. attorney Samantha Bradley rips the veil off a conspiracy stretching from cartel safehouses in El Salvador to the highest halls of power in Washington, D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney Samantha Bradley thought she was prosecuting one trafficker, Miguel “El Fantasma” Barrera. But as the explosive trial unfolds, she realizes she’s exposing a tangled web of political corruption, media gaslighting, and a system determined to protect its own. In the courtroom, Samantha faces down the defense’s ...

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist - and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.

The Last Confession – Book Summary: A fictional thriller and mystery When a sealed federal indictment names clergy from the historic San Gabriel Mission as central figures in a vast criminal enterprise, criminal psychologist Roberta Galvez is pulled into a web of buried secrets, institutional betrayal, and spiritual manipulation that stretches across decades. The investigation, triggered by an anonymous confession and an explosive TV handoff, uncovers a shadowy group known as “the Clique,” a network of priests and enforcers who used the mission system as a front for racketeering, ...

In the wake of the rebel Niyandrians' abduction attempt, Anskar DeVantte, now a knight-inferior of the Order of Eternal Vigilance, has set sail with the Grand Master, bound for the mother house in Sansor. Anskar has already begun to suspect that the Order's holy convictions aren't as pure as they appear, and his doubts are confirmed when the ship detours to the slave markets of Atya. As the Grand Master gathers an expedition to retrieve an ancient artifact from an unearthed ruin, Anskar finds himself torn.

BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER, MYSTERY B.R.A.G. MEDALLION HONOREE, HISTORICAL FICTION READERS' FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL WINNER, MYSTERY Multi-billionaire banker and philanthropist, Ekram M. Almasi, has just been murdered... And there’s only one person who can uncover the mystery behind this international banking scandal: Louise Moscow. Able to handle a high-powered speedboat, an ex-lover, and a ginger-haired villain with equal ease, this international spy embarks on a journey that will take her to Monte Carlo, Paris, and Burgundy. The amazing scenario, however, cannot hide a complicated and ...

In "Flight of Eagles," a disgraced dam builder, Russell Troy, finds himself at the precipice of a moral abyss, facing a life-changing choice that will determine the fate of tens of thousands. Once a high-riding geophysicist in his family's international construction firm, Russell's world crumbles when his reckless older brother's gambling addiction brings ruin to their once-secure lives. Faced with humiliation and destitution, Russell contemplates a dark escape from his threatening future at the edge of a cliff. But his attempt at ending it all only deepens his despair, until an unexpected ...

In Albion Minor, riots rule & soldiers shoot to order. A dead body is decaying in Ben Jackman’s patch and he’s suspect Number 1. Proving his innocence in a dystopian hell is problematic because justice is auctioned to the highest bidder and Ben Jackman has no coins to jingle in his pockets. The story begins with Marvin, Ben’s last best friend, being in deep trouble with the Black Hat cartel. He has stolen and they want the theft punished. Marvin asks Ben to deliver a bag, the stolen booty, to his mother, pleading with Ben to honour a childhood pact, a promise to help each other in ...

Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-war Japan. Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan's largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company's corrupt financiers.

THE RACE IS ALMOST RUN As the relentless race hurtles toward its climactic finale, a singular, all-encompassing question emerges, casting a looming shadow of uncertainty over the impending showdown: When Detective Superintendent Ian Wilson squares off against the enigmatic Circle, will the final confrontation deliver a mortal blow to one or both of these formidable adversaries? In the twelfth installment of the electrifying Wilson Series, the narrative reaches its zenith. The anticipation is palpable as the suspense builds to an almost unbearable crescendo. In a world where secrets, ...

When old-school journalist William Carver is tipped off by a trusted Whitehall source that climate scientists have begun to go missing in suspicious circumstances, his gut instinct tells him to follow the story. It rapidly becomes clear that scientists, green campaigners and well-intentioned politicians are in the firing line; William Carver and his colleagues must move fast to find out who is behind the disappearances. They know the journalist's job is to speak truth to power - but first you must uncover that truth and this time it's buried deeper than ever.

Jake Hughes cannot run from the fact that he is entering a head on collision with the Mob! Six weeks earlier Jake Hughes was living the quiet life in America with his wife Emily, They decide to take their annual vacation, walking in England. A chance meeting during the walk awakens a hidden memory in Jake, dragging him into direct conflict with a powerful Mafia Family, catapulting him into a a game of cat and mouse, challenging life or death! He teams up with, Jonty Ball, a retired detective inspector, between them they thread the pieices of an unsolved murder twenty years earlier. Is it ...

In the heart of the untamed wilderness, secrets run deeper than the rivers that carve through the backwoods. When a tragic betrayal shatters the fragile peace of a close-knit community, one person must uncover the truth before they becomes the next victim. As family ties unravel and long-buried grudges resurface, the once-idyllic small town becomes a breeding ground for suspicion and danger. With the forest as both a sanctuary and a trap, survival means outsmarting the harsh elements and the shadows lurking within. Backwoods Betrayal is a gripping tale of loyalty, deceit, and the dark ...

ORIGINAL STORY, WRITTEN BY A HUMAN All things are connected - Tread Carefully. Detective Ange Watson is tougher than she looks, even tougher than she realises. Which is just as well... When asked to find a young surfer who vanished from a nearby fishing village, Ange feels confident she’ll solve the matter quickly, leaving the weekend free to enjoy the beach and catch some awesome waves. It’s ironic how the simple jobs are the ones that turn to custard. As Ange dives deeper into the case, she's swept up in a frantic chase to expose the truth and prevent further carnage. Every turn ...

Lola's gang has grown beyond a few trusted soldiers into a full-fledged empire, and the influx of cash has opened up a world she has never known. But with great opportunity comes great risk, and as Lola ascends the hierarchy of the city's underworld, she attracts the attention of a dangerous new cartel that sees her as its greatest obstacle to dominance. Soon, Lola finds herself sucked into a deadly all-out drug war that threatens to destroy everything she's built. But even as Lola readies to go to war, she learns the greatest threat may not be a rival drug lord but her own brother.

With great corruption comes great power. Jack is pretty sure that's the way the saying goes. It's a good thing, too, for the war in Ter’nodril, which he’d hoped would spell the beginning of the end for the DIR, instead left him corrupted, body and soul. The good news is that the Fallen used the Blight that now fills his veins as a weapon in their war against the gods themselves. He’s sure that he can find a way to use it, too, to destroy Valia Online once and for all. He even knows exactly who he'll test its power against first: Manhart.