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The Smart Contract Killer

When Scot­land Yard recruits former finance profes­sio­nal Fran­cis J. Barlow to help with their white-collar crimes, it initi­ally seems like a good career move. Howe­ver, his exci­te­ment cools when it beco­mes clear it’s a mundane desk job with a boss deter­mi­ned to check his advance­ment.

This all chan­ges because of the Brexit demons­tra­ti­ons in Octo­ber 2018. So, when he’s given an actual out-of-the-office crimi­nal case, and Euro­pol asks him to join their task force, he jumps at the chance to follow the trail to Southe­ast Asia.

This thrusts Fran­cis into a world of unpar­al­le­led humi­dity, heady traf­fic, amazing cuisine, and the myste­ries of Chinese languages and culture that test him at every turn. He’s equally confoun­ded by a scheme invol­ving money laun­de­ring, tax evasion, block­chains, and cryp­to­cur­rency that begins to unra­vel before him.

The deeper he delves into the art of orde­ring Asian food and sedu­cing the beau­tiful Nancy, the closer he seems to get to the source of the mystery. But how is it all connec­ted? Who is the skillful inter­na­tio­nal killer that is killing the people invol­ved? And just who can he trust?

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