When a woman from his past calls, Dan Reynolds must decide whether to risk everything to recover her family’s stolen life savings.
Reynolds, having just changed his name to avoid past enemies, is intrigued for reasons he doesn’t want to admit. But this case involves cyber-crypto crime, an arena in which he has no experience. Fellow investigator Cody Gibbons, on the other hand, is an active crypto trader, and is owed a favor by a company that specializes in tracking illicit crypto funds.
With no assurance they’ll be paid, Reynolds and Gibbons team up to search for the con artists behind the scam. Quickly conceding the job can’t be done from behind a desk, the two investigators hit the road and apply their brand of face-to-face persuasion to extract answers.
Assuming that cyber criminals are essentially non-violent, Reynolds gets a harsh wakeup call when he narrowly dodges a bullet. The stakes rise even higher when they discover a web of professional predators are pulling the strings. The investigation leads overseas to lands foreign to Reynolds and Gibbons, and success will require extreme tactics in hostile territory. They must be both creative and brutal, for their lives depend on it.
But as certain truths unfold and Reynolds discovers what was ultimately behind the crime, it leaves him questioning many things, including his true motivations.
Genre: Mystery
Reynolds, having just changed his name to avoid past enemies, is intrigued for reasons he doesn’t want to admit. But this case involves cyber-crypto crime, an arena in which he has no experience. Fellow investigator Cody Gibbons, on the other hand, is an active crypto trader, and is owed a favor by a company that specializes in tracking illicit crypto funds.
With no assurance they’ll be paid, Reynolds and Gibbons team up to search for the con artists behind the scam. Quickly conceding the job can’t be done from behind a desk, the two investigators hit the road and apply their brand of face-to-face persuasion to extract answers.
Assuming that cyber criminals are essentially non-violent, Reynolds gets a harsh wakeup call when he narrowly dodges a bullet. The stakes rise even higher when they discover a web of professional predators are pulling the strings. The investigation leads overseas to lands foreign to Reynolds and Gibbons, and success will require extreme tactics in hostile territory. They must be both creative and brutal, for their lives depend on it.
But as certain truths unfold and Reynolds discovers what was ultimately behind the crime, it leaves him questioning many things, including his true motivations.
Genre: Mystery
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