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Call for ARC readers

Posted on by Tony McFadden

Hello, all you happy readers. I’m calling for ARC reviewers. You can sign up for either one or both of my two upcoming books by going to this form.

[EDIT: The original form was spammed, with over 24,000 “responses” in 12 hours. I’ve added Google verification to address this issue. If you’d prefer not to go through Google, please leave a comment below with the word ‘elephant’ in it if you’re interested in being an ARC reader, and I’ll reach out to you.

Both books stand alone, so don’t feel you’ll be short-changed by reading only one of them.

Just a reminder that I’ll be managing book distribution through Booksprout.co You can sign up for a free reader account at this link.

Fast Track is Mac Durridge’s latest case.

Mac has been scrounging for cases. Business hasn’t been good.

Thirteen-year-old Josh has hired him to find his coin collection for the princely sum of $25.

He’s in the middle of that nearly pro bono case when Sophie, his on-again, currently off-again girlfriend, comes to him with a problem. Her best friend, Central Coast Network News reporter Linda Carmody, hasn’t been heard from in over a week.

Completely out of character.

Mac’s investigation uncovers a financial conspiracy that threatens to topple the government and exposes him to a level of physical danger he hasn’t encountered in years.

Do Not Pass Go is Nick Harding’s latest case.

Nick Harding’s fifth case.

With the rotten smell of his last case still lingering, Nick is hired to find a missing person.

His girlfriend, Lucy, asks him to locate Alex Bainbridge, one of her close friends from university and a member of a group of six who have remained in touch since their time there. He is a financial journalist who often goes to the ground during investigations, but this time, he has missed a regular group gathering and has become electronically invisible.

Nick’s investigation uncovers a financial conspiracy that threatens to topple another government and exposes him to a level of physical danger he hasn’t encountered in years. ARCs will be available starting next week.

Pop over to this form (opens in a new window) and register. Since these books are both releasing on July 18, I’m looking for reviews by July 11 to help propel the launch.

Review copies will be made available (and ARC readers accepted) through Booksprout the first week of May until the end of June.

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Introduction to Mac Durridge, PI

Posted on by Tony McFadden

Back in, I don’t know when, while I was living on the Central Coast of NSW, we took the scenic route home along the beach through Budgewoi, and I spotted a cheap sign advertising “PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR” in white letters on black paint, with a mobile number listed below it.

I don’t remember which town. If I could find the place again, I’d take a picture of that sign and use it as a cover. Maybe all my covers for this series of books.

But I wondered—what the hell would a PI do for work in a small town of 3,000? Definitely nothing undercover. After a short time, he’d know all the town’s secrets, as well as those of the surrounding towns.

And thus was born Malcolm Durridge, a former NSW Police Senior Sergeant who left the force under mysterious circumstances. (Perhaps something for a future book. Perhaps.) He now operates a one-man PI shop above a TAB betting establishment in a small, fake town on Tuggerah Lake.

Mac’s cases vary from bank fraud and international conspiracies to a 13-year-old kid paying him $25 to find his stolen coin collection.

He got an old attorney friend whose help he frequently needs, an ex-wife (who is well on her way to becoming a doctor) and Barry (Baz), an indeterminately aged man who chooses to live homeless. Baz serves as his invisible (to the rest of society) source, keeping an eye on things when things need an eye or two.

E-books can be found on Amazon here, with more e-retailers coming soon.

Paperbacks (including Large Print) are on Barnes & Noble: Mac D | A Step Too Far | Hunter/Prey and other good and evil bookstores.

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#KindleUnlimited / KDP Select

Posted on by Tony McFadden

In an attempt to raise the visibility of the books which lead into “Dead Tomorrow” (coming to all good and shitty bookstores in May 2023), I‘ve placed “Broken” and “Unprotected Sax” in the KDP Select program on Amazon.

Broken

Broken is Nick Harding’s last case. Nick is a former member of the Australian Federal Police who specialised in financial crimes. He left the AFB almost a decade ago and set himself up as a PRivate Investigator.

Nick Harding has a new case. Actually, two of them.

A very rich old dude is about to kick off and is desperate to make amends with his estranged son. Nick is contacted by the old guy’s lawyer with a task: Find the son, convince him to get in contact with his father, and help mediate the relationship.

Nick hates mediating.

That same day a friend of a friend engages him to track down a serial deadbeat who has bilked a small financial services company out of millions of dollars. The fee is lower, but the job is more up Nick’s alley.

Then the heir’s life is threatened, the deadbeat has a compelling backstory and everything Nick thought he knew was wrong.

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Unprotected Sax

Unprotected Sax came out over a decade ago. The main antagonist in this story was a Rusiian mobster in South Florida named Vladimir Petrovski.

In “Dead Tomorrow (coming to all good, mediocre, and shitty bookstores everywhere in May 2023), Petrovski reappears, with good reasons (for him) and proves to be a worthy adversary.

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