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Danny Tyler spent four years trying to escape his family's criminal empire. When his father dangles $25,000 a week in front of him, he learns the straight life was never going to work. The job is elegant: build synthetic identities, exploit credit systems, steal from banks that'll never miss the money. Then the FBI raids his father's operation, his father dies in custody, and a CIA officer offers him a deal: become an asset, or go to prison.

He accepts. Now he's a criminal with government...

To celebrate the release of Synthetic Identity, I'm giving away Kindle copies through Goodreads. The giveaway runs through June 14, 2026, and it's open to Goodreads members who'd like a chance to read the book that came out of three years of research into FBI synthetic identity fraud cases.

Entering is free. Winners are selected by Goodreads and the Kindle edition is delivered straight to your device.

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When I sat down to write Synthetic Identity, one of the earliest decisions I made was also one of the most consequential: Danny Tyler would tell this story himself.

That might sound simple. Pick a point of view, start writing. But for a crime thriller built around a family-run fraud operation, first person was a gamble. It meant locking the reader inside the head of a man who does terrible things for a living. No distance. No safety net. No omniscient narrator to step in and remind you that...