Books

The Secret of Blackwater Cove
A Monsieur Hercule Bouvard Mystery

A wedding should have been the beginning of a family’s happiest memories.
Instead, it became the beginning of a nightmare.

When the wealthy Carson family gathers at their coastal estate in Blackwater Cove for a lavish wedding celebration, old secrets begin to surface. Among the guests...

Dive beak-first into a riotous romp through the English countryside, where tea is sacred, ducks are militant, and dumbwaiters hide more than secrets.
When Reginald ‘Reggie’ Marlow, an unsuspecting gent with a fondness for cravats and confusion, inherits his late aunt’s eccentric estate at Ponsby, he finds himself tangled in a mystery involving...

Are We Stupid? – Why Humanity’s Greatest Talent Is Getting It Wrong
Why do we fall for fake news, worship money, elect clowns, fight over gods, fall in love with the wrong people, and trust technology more than ourselves? Because, quite simply, we are gloriously stupid.

In this satirical yet thought-provoking book, Rohit Patel takes readers on a...

We invented the internet, and then filled it with cat videos and conspiracy theories. We built rockets, and used them to sell joyrides to billionaires. We created artificial intelligence, and immediately asked it to write poems about cheese.
Yes, we are Still Stupid.

In this satirical sequel to Are We Stupid?, Rohit Patel takes another sharp,...

“Let’s Reboot India: A Common Man’s Vision for Transformation” takes readers on a compelling journey through the challenges and opportunities that define modern India. This thought-provoking book presents a holistic roadmap for tackling the most pressing issues in education, employment, agriculture, economy, justice, and national unity.

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A locked room. A missing sextant. A river that knows too much.

New York, 1950. When the reclusive maritime collector Edwin Elsworth is found dead in his study on Riverside Drive, the door is locked from the inside, the key still in the lock, and the doctor is satisfied: a failing heart, nothing more. No wound. No poison. No sign that any other...

New York, 1950. A respected attorney is shot dead in a midnight alley. The only witness is a man who has been dead for six years.

When prominent Manhattan lawyer Harold Grayson is found murdered in a Midtown alley, Inspector O’Malley calls in the one man he trusts with an impossible case: Hercule Bouvard, the quietly brilliant Belgian detective...

Some debts are paid in blood. This one was supposed to be paid in truth — until Minh Tran found out how many people would suffer for the difference.

In August 1974, six American soldiers came to a village in Quảng Ngãi Province and did something so unspeakable that three sisters would spend the rest of their lives paying for one night. One of the...

What if the man you elected was never there at all?
Quantum Directive is a novel about identity, consent, and the silence we choose around the truths that cost us most.

Ninety years after Helios changed the world, someone is trying to erase the night it began.

In 2137, Earth and its colonies thrive under two institutions: the Helios Council and the Maddox Consortium. Humanity has learned, at extraordinary cost, to govern itself honestly. The Chrono Integrity Accord protects history itself — every critical moment...

Year: 2065. In the smart city of NeoGenesis, rain is not scheduled today.
Inside Pod #3115, a man sits alone, unplugged. His name is Eli Parker. He is ninety-seven years old, perhaps the last human alive who remembers what thunder sounded like without augmentation. His neural implants have been deactivated — by choice, a crime in all but name....

What if reality itself was a simulation—crafted by beings beyond gods, beyond time, beyond imagination?
From the author of Love is Stupid comes a mind-bending fusion of science fiction, metaphysics, and cosmic philosophy.

When Dr. Arion Vega, a quantum physicist obsessed with decoding the origins of consciousness, detects an anomaly that thinks...

The mission doesn’t exist. Neither does the man it was built to eliminate.

When CIA operative Jaden Scott is sent to Bogotá with a kill order and no exfiltration protocol, he understands two things immediately: this is not an extraction mission, and the man he was told to find has been waiting to be found.

Robert Velasco has spent twenty-six...

The document was supposed to be destroyed.
The network was supposed to be dead. Jaden Scott was supposed to be retired.

A classified financial ledger recovered from a Syrian intelligence sub-basement links a decades-old covert accord to the highest levels of the American intelligence community. The man who holds the ledger is already running. The...

They told him the programme was decommissioned in 2014.
They were wrong.

When a former Jordanian intelligence operative contacts Jaden Scott through an authentication system that should not exist, she carries six words that change everything: the Phoenix programme is still running. Six people have been conditioned without their knowledge, their...

Eight words arrive through an authentication channel last active in 1969.
I am the last RAVEN. I want out.

The RAVEN Directive is not a person. It is a programme, seventy-seven years old, designed by the man who turned away from the 1946 Accord’s founding photograph because he already knew what it would become. A conditioning architecture that...

A SENATOR IS DEAD. AN AI CONTROLS THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS. AND THE ONLY MAN WHO CAN STOP IT HAS ALREADY BEEN ERASED.

When veteran CIA operative Jaden Scott watches US Senator Jonathan Aldrich die on the floor of a Geneva restaurant — pressing an encrypted flash drive into Scott’s hands with his last breath — he inherits not...

The programme was never shut down. They only made it harder to find.

When veteran intelligence operative Jaden Scott receives a cryptic message — Hades was never shut down. They are coming — he is pulled into the most dangerous investigation of his career. A Cold War kill programme, buried beneath thirty years of institutional secrecy, has been...

The algorithm was never supposed to choose who dies. Until it did.

When intelligence operative Jaden Scott intercepts evidence of a kill programme running on an autonomous AI targeting system, he discovers something that changes the nature of every investigation he has ever conducted: no one is authorising the executions. The machine is deciding...

They rebuilt Nazi Germany from the inside. One man was sent to stop them.

Vienna, 1947. The ruins of war are still smouldering when former OSS operative Daniel Rourke arrives at the Westbahnhof on a routine commission: find a missing journalist. He witnesses a man shot dead on the platform before he clears the arrivals gate. In the dead man’s...