When a notorious investigation into Los Angeles’s darkest criminal network thrusts private investigator Trevor Finnegan into the national spotlight, the fallout is immediate—and lethal.
Haunted by his past as a cop and driven by an obsession with justice for the dead, Finnegan has spent years hunting the powerful men who profited from torture and murder on the dark web.
But when a billionaire suspect dies in federal custody and the agents involved turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, Finnegan finds himself facing a far more insidious enemy. One that doesn’t just silence people but drives them to the edge.
As Finnegan digs deeper, his search leads him into the orbit of a brilliant, charismatic tech mogul promising a cleaner, safer future through artificial intelligence. And the line between progress and cruelty blurs beyond recognition.
With his pregnant wife at risk, his agency on the brink of collapse, and his own moral compass under siege, Finnegan must decide how far he’s willing to go—and what he’s willing to lose—to stop a force that claims it can conquer death itself.
Aaron Philip Clark is the author of the International Thriller Writers Award-nominated Detective Trevor Finnegan series. He has co-written and collaborated on works of fiction with rap artist and entertainment mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Civil Rights Attorney and activist Benjamin L. Crump, and various public figures and luminaries.
He has two forthcoming novels: BLUES FOR THE DEAD (Severn House/Joffe Books), which features Det. Trevor Finnegan, an ex-LAPD detective turned PI, investigating a powerful tech CEO with a dark past and nefarious plans for the future, and ALL THE SMOKE (Amistad/HarperCollins), a psychological thriller inspired by The Talented Mr. Ripley, set in the world of hip-hop and scheduled for publication in Feb. 2027.
In addition to writing, Aaron is a professor at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in Hollywood, CA, and hosts the podcast, The Culture Point, on the Authors on the Air Global Radio network.
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My thoughts: PI Trevor Finnegan is helping the FBI look into a group of truly nasty predators, but when the agents he’s been working with turn up dead, it looks like it might all fall apart. But when the tech billionaire son of a dead suspect hires him, he finds a whole new layer of evil.
His wife’s pregnant and on bed rest, his ex is a mess which puts their young daughter in danger, and his team are not happy with his methods.
As he digs into his new client and tries to find out what really happened to the FBI agents, he puts everything he holds dear at risk.
A smart, gripping dark thriller that exposes the risks of progress when it does harm and the way powerful people manipulate the situation.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
