Nick Shannon
3 total works
Nick Shannon is at last his own man and has set up his own investigation business specialising in corruption and fraud. His first client is a small businessman and local councillor whose daughter has disappeared at the same time as several hundred thousand pounds of council funds. Her father is sure she has been abducted, but Shannon isn't so certain. He suspects that if he can trace the money he will find the girl, and while obstacles are strewn in his path, often violently, he doggedly unpicks a paper trail which reveals a level of local government corruption which puts Idi Amin to shame.
In Nick Shannon's third adventure he is still seconded to the Fraud Squad and is part of the team investigating an insurance company whose policies don't seem to match the premiums they charge. When one of their directors dies in suspicious circumstances Nick goes under cover in their Docklands offices. He discovers a willing work force but a management with an arrogance which could easily prove to be criminal. At the same time his lover, Arlene, arrives from the States having been caught up in a fraudulent property scam and she is keen for Nick to use his skills to bring the conmen to book. Torn between professional and personal obligations, Nick starts a scam of his own to trap the miscreants into proving their own crimes, but it is a scheme which could snare him as well and land him back in jail.
Nick Shannon is out. Out of prison and out for justice. All he wasnts is to put his life back together- and to find the man who crippled his sister and killed her boyfriend. He's got a job in 'due diligence'- assessing the price to be paid to take over a company- so at least that's a start. Then his boss is murdered, and what better prime suspect than an ex-con? John's mutilated body is only the first of Nick's discoveries. As he struggles to clear himself, Nick turns over the stone which reveals John's secret life of fraud, sexual entrapment and blackmail. It emerges that the man tipped off to be the next Chancellor is top of the list of John's victims, that a million pounds has disappeared and that he's inherited a dead man's enemies. What he hasn't got is time. Just three days to identify who's paying money into his account, three days to work out why someone wants to steal his future.