Terror Isn't Cheap...

Nick Stephenson's best selling Leopold Blake thriller series is back with a brand new installment by Gordon Hopkins.

A sniper sets his sights on a crowd of innocents. A bomber targets New York City landmarks. Even billionaire private investigator Leopold Blake isn't safe from terrorists, despite the best efforts of his stoic bodyguard, Jerome.

Are these lone-wolf attacks or is there a guiding force behind them? Leopold and NYPD Sergeant Mary Jordan are determined to find out before disaster strikes again. But terror isn't cheap - so where is the money coming from?

In San Francisco, insurance companies are being scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Bremler Mutual sends their best investigator, Gil DiMauro, to root out the thieves. But there is one question he can't answer: what happened to all the cash?

As the shocking realisation dawns, Leopold and his team must rally their forces and uncover the truth - while heading for a showdown that may just well be their last.

Broken is another exciting installment in the Leopold Blake series of thrillers and can be read as a standalone novel. 

Gil DiMauro is the best Insurance Investigator there is. He is also the least motivated. He doesn't care if his company loses thousands in bogus insurance claims. He doesn't even care that his boss thinks he's an idiot. The only thing he really cares about escaping Hartford, Connecticut (not to mention his never-say-ex girlfriend) and returning to his home town of San Francisco. 

He becomes more motivated when a coworker is murdered and Gil becomes the prime suspect. He swears he never even met the dead woman but the police say otherwise. His investigation leads him to a conspiracy right under his nose, a conspiracy where insurance fraud and murder are just the tip of the iceberg. 

Fraudsters was a finalist for both the St. Martin's Press Malice Domestic Competition and the Private Eye Writers of America's Best Private Eye Novel Competition. 

Although Fraudsters is a work of fiction, all the scams described in the book are real.

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