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Operational Risk: The Compliance Files Book 2
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Series: The Compliance Files, Book 2
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ISBN13: 9798245152981
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
OPERATIONAL RISK
A Compliance Files Thriller (Book 2)
Following Failure to Comply In the wake of a closed investigation, the deaths should have stopped. They didn't. When compliance investigator Mara Vance uncovers a fatal maritime incident quietly routed around official reporting channels, she realizes the problem is no longer a single corrupted file. The system has adapted. This time:
A Compliance Files Thriller (Book 2)
Following Failure to Comply In the wake of a closed investigation, the deaths should have stopped. They didn't. When compliance investigator Mara Vance uncovers a fatal maritime incident quietly routed around official reporting channels, she realizes the problem is no longer a single corrupted file. The system has adapted. This time:
- The paperwork is flawless.
- The witnesses are pre-aligned.
- The risk has already been priced in. As Mara traces a pattern through Great Lakes shipping routes, insurance audits, and port authorities, she discovers a shadow framework designed to absorb human loss as operational overhead. Every death is categorized. Every liability is managed. And every investigation is met with procedural resistance that never technically breaks the rules. The deeper she pushes, the more isolated she becomes. Agencies deflect. Jurisdictions overlap. And the moment she forces the record to acknowledge the truth, powerful institutions begin moving to contain her instead. Because compliance isn't about safety. It's about exposure. OPERATIONAL RISK is the second novel in The Compliance Files, a procedural conspiracy thriller series about manufactured records, institutional denial, and the quiet systems that decide which deaths matter.
- The witnesses are pre-aligned.
- The risk has already been priced in. As Mara traces a pattern through Great Lakes shipping routes, insurance audits, and port authorities, she discovers a shadow framework designed to absorb human loss as operational overhead. Every death is categorized. Every liability is managed. And every investigation is met with procedural resistance that never technically breaks the rules. The deeper she pushes, the more isolated she becomes. Agencies deflect. Jurisdictions overlap. And the moment she forces the record to acknowledge the truth, powerful institutions begin moving to contain her instead. Because compliance isn't about safety. It's about exposure. OPERATIONAL RISK is the second novel in The Compliance Files, a procedural conspiracy thriller series about manufactured records, institutional denial, and the quiet systems that decide which deaths matter.
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