A trillion-dollar industry. Its product is trust. Its currency is human despair. When Boston architect Sarah Evans matches with a charming financier on a dating app, she believes she's finally opening her heart again after a devastating loss. He's successful, witty, and understanding. He also doesn't exist.
Half a world away, Leo Lim, a talented software engineer trapped in a nightmarish compound in Myanmar, is typing those perfect messages. Forced to scam the vulnerable under threat of torture, he builds digital traps for a living, watching his victims' lives be dismantled one click at a time. He is both a prisoner and a perpetrator.
And in Washington D.C., disgraced Interpol liaison Mark Ressler sees a pattern emerging from the shadows: an impossible surge of financial disappearances funneling into the same digital black hole. He's chasing ghosts, haunted by a past failure and the growing certainty that a new, unprecedented kind of crime syndicate is emerging from the dark web.
Their worlds are about to collide.
From Macau's glittering casinos to Southeast Asia's fortified scam compounds, Scammers Inc. is a heart-pounding journey into the ruthless world of industrialized fraud. It is a system where love is a weapon, trust is a trap, and thousands are enslaved to fuel its endless greed.
As Sarah falls deeper under the spell of a beautiful lie, Leo plans a desperate digital rebellion, and Mark risks everything to follow the money, a single truth becomes terrifyingly clear:
A lone predator is not hunting you. A machine is processing you.
Scammers Inc. is the explosive first book in The Phoenix Protocol series, a globe-spanning thriller that exposes the real-world horror of pig-butchering scams and modern slavery. Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva's international intrigue, this series will leave you questioning every too-good-to-be-true message in your inbox.
The first click is just the beginning.
