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Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian Federal Police.

The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars -- Australia's first and only EV manufacturer -- hires him to root out the fraud costing what is now her company upwards of $5 million a month over the past year.

Nick reluctantly takes the case -- we all have bills to pay -- and quickly realises that the beatings, excessive running and cars on fire are barely compensated by the healthy day rate and the opportunity to drive one of the sweet, sweet Dvorak convertibles.

With suspects to spare -- the wife, the head of security, the corporate CFO -- will he figure out how millions of dollars are disappearing before he runs out of time?

Of course he will.

"Right from the introduction, the dry wit set a romping tone for a well-planned, action-packed series of misadventures with the details of a Tom Clancy plot written in the attitude of a Dick Francis delivery. The spunky characters made this a really fun read..." 5 Stars

Nick Harding has a new case.

A man who used to be one of his targets when he sat in a seat in the Australian Federal Police tracking money launderers has “hired” him to find his daughter.

Not “hired” so much as “kidnapped”. He’ll be free to leave once the daughter-father reunion happens. The daughter has no interest in meeting her father. She’s only in town to disburse three-year-old ill-gotten gains.

Ten million of them.

And if the father was honest, it’s those ill-gotten gains he really wants to meet up with. Unfortunately for the daughter, the father, and Nick and his colleagues, the previous owner of those ill-gotten gains is working harder to find her than Nick is.

The good guy always wins. Nick isn’t sure who that is this time.