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The Hangman

The Hangman

Publisher: Vinci Books
Year: 2023
Synopsis:

When an SEC investigator spots insider trades tied to the oncoming 9/11 attacks, his follow-the-money game turns deadly in this adrenaline-fueled financial conspiracy espionage thriller.

September 2001 is approaching, and someone is betting billions on America’s downfall.

Wall Street prodigy Liam Maverick should be serving life for a brutal double killing. Instead, he flees to Europe, where the terror group ETA remakes him into a far deadlier weapon. With his identity erased and his face surgically altered, he becomes Sam Saxon, the assassin they call the Hangman.

Back in the US, SEC investigator Barrett Johnson spots a tremor in the markets: a coordinated bet against America. His bosses dismiss him as a troublesome investigator with a gambling habit, until CIA task force leader Sergeant Major Jenn Rawlins pulls him into a covert counterterror operation.

While Rawlins battles bureaucratic blindness in DC and Barrett follows shell companies and blood money across borders, Saxon learns his handlers are building a plot aimed at the heart of his homeland. As America moves unknowingly toward 9/11, someone is turning stock markets into weapons, and the fallout will be measured in bodies.

Now hunter and hunted are on a collision course with history.

Twist-packed, gritty, and relentlessly fast-paced, The Hangman launches the Barrett Johnson Thrillers series.

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Undisclosed Location

Undisclosed Location

Publisher: Vinci Books
Year: 2023
Synopsis:

A high-stakes financial conspiracy thriller where insider trading is the trap and revenge is the answer. Expect a wrong-man fugitive, corruption at the top, and an SEC investigator following the money through shell corporations and blood money.

The only thing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose is a man with billions to get back.

Mitchell Roth rules Wall Street from his Miami stronghold―he moves markets, manages billions, and lives without limits. Then, in a single morning, everything collapses.

Arrested for insider trading―a crime he didn’t commit―Mitch loses it all: his reputation, his fortune, and his freedom. Framed by those closest to him and trapped in a system designed to convict, he makes one explosive decision: he cuts his ankle monitor and disappears.

Now the FBI and the SEC are closing in, and Mitch has one shot to clear his name: follow the money. The trail winds through offshore fronts, market rigging, and the bloodstained machinery of global finance, and straight into a conspiracy that reaches far beyond one fallen financier.

To survive long enough to strike back, Mitch forms an uneasy alliance with SEC investigator Barrett Johnson and Sam Saxon, the assassin they call the Hangman.

Because this isn’t just about Mitch’s billions. It’s about control. And the people pulling the strings don’t break the law―they write it.

Twist-filled, ruthless, and impossible to put down, Undisclosed Location is the second book in the Barrett Johnson espionage thrillers series.

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Omertà Covenant

Omertà Covenant

Publisher: Vinci Books
Year: 2024
Synopsis:

A ruthless mafia-and-finance thriller where loyalty is tested and the numbers can kill. A high-stakes rescue mission unfolds under federal surveillance, with a financial meltdown minutes away.

A blood oath. A collapsing bank. One debt with no way out.

Decades ago, David Grasso saved Mitchell Roth’s life and bound him to a code of silence known as the Omertà. Now Grasso, the head of Mercantile International Bank, is calling in that debt.

Mercantile International Bank is hours from collapse. Toxic Venezuelan bonds are dragging it under, the FBI is closing in, and if it fails―it could shake the entire global economy.

Mitch has rebuilt his life, but he can’t outrun what he owes. To get Grasso out alive and stop the collapse, he pulls his team back together: Barrett Johnson, the strategist with a mind for war, and Sam Saxon, the assassin they call the Hangman.

The mission? Easy to explain. Almost impossible to survive. Get one of the most recognizable men in New York out from under federal surveillance, then step into the lion’s den and save the bank from the inside.

They have hours to pull Grasso out and stop the collapse―before the Feds close in and the world’s economy follows.

Twist-filled, ruthless, and high-stakes, The Omertà Covenant is the third book in the Barrett Johnson espionage thrillers series.

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The Brink

The Brink

Publisher: Vinci Books
Year: 2024
Synopsis:

A geopolitical thriller where nuclear strikes and invasions push the world to the brink. Expect a hostage crisis in Moscow, black-ops kidnapping, and a Fed Chair fighting economic collapse.

Taiwan falls. Dresden burns. The U.S. president is kidnapped. The world isn’t just burning. It’s about to end.

In a single morning, the geopolitical order collapses. China invades Taiwan. A Russian ICBM wipes out Dresden. Global markets freefall. And when US President Christopher Walker flies to Moscow to stop the slide into Armageddon, he vanishes into enemy hands.

With the nation on the brink, Mitchell Roth is dragged back into government and installed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. His job is brutal: keep America solvent while the world tears itself apart.

But money can’t rescue the President.

That mission falls to Barrett Johnson and Sam Saxon, the assassin they call the Hangman. Their target isn’t a terrorist or a general―but a ghost: Veronika Shumitzky, the secret daughter of the Russian leader who’s holding the world hostage, hidden deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The plan is insane. Kidnap the daughter. Force the trade. Buy peace.

If they succeed, they might stop World War III. If they fail, the last war in human history begins.

Relentless, high-stakes, and impossible to put down, The Brink is the fourth book in the Barrett Johnson espionage thrillers series.

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Pound of Flesh

Pound of Flesh

Publisher: Vinci Books
Year: 2024
Synopsis:

A brutal finance-and-espionage thriller where a Federal Reserve powerbroker becomes a target. Revenge, black magic, and a grief-fueled manhunt drag the war to Venezuela.

He took her freedom. Now she wants his soul.

Mitchell Roth has reached the pinnacle of power. As Chairman of the Federal Reserve, he can steady markets with a phone call and bend governments with a whisper. But power doesn’t erase the past. It puts a target on everyone you love.

Mitch’s ex-wife Miranda Mendoza is out of prison after seven years, and she hasn’t come back to make peace. She’s come for revenge, backed by Venezuela’s regime and armed with something money can’t buy: Palerismo black magic.

Then Stephanie Johnson is murdered in cold blood, and the rules change overnight. For Barrett Johnson, her husband, it’s no longer a hunt for answers. It’s war.

As Mitch and Barrett dig deeper, they uncover a conspiracy where corruption and terror are backed by state power, and the cost of resistance is paid in blood. With enemies closing in from Washington to Caracas, the only way to survive is to take the fight to Miranda’s doorstep.

Mitch Roth knows the cost of doing business. This time, the price is a pound of flesh.

Twist-filled, brutal, and relentlessly high-stakes, A Pound of Flesh is the fifth book in the Barrett Johnson espionage thrillers series.

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Reader Reviews

★★★★★ 4.2 on Goodreads

From readers of the Barrett Johnson series

An incredible, unprecedented historic thriller. Max Sinclair is bursting onto the scene as a new thriller-writer.

Goodreads Readeron The Hangman

I read this book as fast as possible — very difficult to stop reading each chapter.

James LeBlancon The Hangman · Goodreads

A really well written tale. Really good characters with an amazing plot.

Philip Rogerson Undisclosed Location · Goodreads

Well written, intricately plotted, and unforgiving.

J.D. Schechteron Undisclosed Location · Goodreads

The Author

Max Sinclair

Author of the Barrett Johnson Series

Max Sinclair has lived through the kind of chaos most only see in headlines—terrorist attacks, coup d’états, uprisings, and the grinding reality of absolute poverty. He’s witnessed the best and worst of humanity, surviving in places where danger isn’t just a possibility—it’s a way of life.

After years navigating the high-stakes world of Wall Street and nearly three decades in the international economic arena, Max took those raw, firsthand experiences and turned them into gripping fiction. His novels drop readers straight into the action, blending pulse-pounding storytelling with the hard truths of power, money, and survival.

Stranded in Madrid during the 2020 pandemic, Max began writing in earnest, inspired by his son and sharpened by masterclasses with James Patterson, Dan Brown, and Stephen King’s On Writing. His debut thriller, Undisclosed Location, was crafted across continents, shaped by his deep knowledge of finance’s shadowy corners and a lifetime of adrenaline-fueled reality.

Now deep into his seventh novel, Max continues to create stories that don’t just entertain—they immerse, haunt, and leave readers questioning what they thought they knew about the world.

When he’s not writing or crunching numbers, Max explores mountains, sails warm seas, and shares his adventures with Flora, his loyal dog. His stories are more than fiction—they’re a testament to a life lived on the edge.

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