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A Dark Bank in Vienna launders Russian plunder. Covert tapes are a blackmail bonanza.
"It's only very serious crime writers who could focus in close-up on characters and their psychic essence with the kind of skill that Cappa uses... Deserves to be placed on the same bookshelves as works by Le Carré, Stuart Neville and the Irish Renaissance writer Liam O'Flaherty" - Jay A Gertzman, Pulp According to David Goodis
"The writing is tight, tight, tight. The reader will be amply rewarded for investing time in this fine book, especially if note is taken of each seed of evil Cappa sows in the first fifty or so pages. As in a good play, where everything you see in the first act must serve a purpose before the final curtain comes down, every seed planted on the first few pages results in an evil flower, the flower of collusion, the flower of Russian and other blood money playing hide and seek around the world, lying expectantly in the shadows of its virtual banks for the next transfer into the purchase of arms or the heat of war via a set of encrypted passwords." John J Gaynard
Yakov's Russian money is being rinsed through thousands of bank accounts from Estonia to Cyprus, Nauru to Nieu, Caymans to Ireland and all points in between, laundered until it buys his place at respectable tables. But now there is a problem. Hamilton is the banker from the Vienna operation. He is missing and so is the encryption key that keeps the dark cash spinning.
Before he was a banker, Hamilton was a Military Liaison Officer for the British in Ireland, then graduated to MI5 and freelancing for CIA, and he has the secret tapes from all those gigs, a blackmail mother lode for an intelligence community under pressure.
Before he was a Russian Mafia Prince, Yakov was a Colonel in Russian GRU.
Before he was a dispensable loser, Maknazpy was an expendable nobody.
The tapes are Hamilton's insurance, especially in a Presidential election year - if he goes down he's taking them all with him.
The dirty money brings Maknazpy back to Belfast, the blackmail tapes bring him back 25 years to the dirty war - where Gods make their own importance.
Reviews from the Maknazpy series
"Beautifully descriptive writing. A hold your breath, what happens next thriller. I could not keep up with the bad guys. Not actually a problem. They are all bad guys."
"Mix of subtle allusion, rapidly paced violent set-pieces and character reflection - I like the conversations his characters engage in about politics, capitalism, greed"
"Maknazpy is more complete, more blissfully anarchistic, than the nation-loving type of hero"
"Whether it's through this literary subtext or whether it's through the strengths in the writing itself, the Maknazpy series has an indefinable quality and true originality, finding a way to delve into a particularly Irish sensibility that has deep historical and mythological roots in its connection with the United States, and it places an unusual spin on a conventional genre that at times gives it an almost otherworldly quality"
"Almost literary at times, with the easy-flowing prose and powerful word choices. Recommend for anyone (adults) who enjoy a well-written, intelligently complex novel with truly unexpected twists that will open your mind and keep you on your toes"
"Strong plot lines which are relevant and plausible, a plethora of strong and deeply unpleasant characters, uncompromising dialogue, and vividly described locations, all wrapped up in a climate of brutal realism"
"It felt unique and unpredictable, always a nice experience, especially in a genre that is fraught with derivative copycats"
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