Bücher von Tony Mcfadden

With a meticulous breakdown of story structure, this book reveals the essential elements that make crime fiction truly unputdownable. Every step of the storytelling process is demystified from the incisive introduction to the exhilarating climax. Learn how to skillfully weave intricate plotlines, create multidimensional characters with hidden agendas, and build suspense that keeps readers on the edge of their seats.

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.

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.

The McGinnis Investigations family is thrown into turmoil when one of their own is left, broken, bloody and near death at their doorstep. He was supposed to be on personal leave.The team drops all of their cases, as what started as a personal quest blows out to a battle with one of the most dangerous adversaries they've ever faced.It's all hands on deck, with twenty-two innocent lives on the line.