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One Smart Dead
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781065430506
Publisher: Black Reef Books
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Two days before his wedding, Paul Higham has a problem.
Actually, he has several.
A $2.7 million transfer from Macau is stuck somewhere it really shouldn't be. An auditor is coming. His bank operates in that peculiar Caribbean territory where respectable finance and money laundering can occasionally become difficult to distinguish. And Kiana, the woman he is supposed to marry, is rapidly discovering that Paul's approach to relationships resembles his approach to banking: identify the problem, build a model, and assume everything will eventually reconcile.
It won't.
Paul is a banker, a problem-solver and a man with an impressive ability to remain confident long after confidence has ceased to be justified. When the financial irregularities around him begin acquiring bodies, he does what he has always done: treats the situation as another complicated transaction that can surely be managed if he can just understand all the moving parts.
Unfortunately, some of the moving parts have guns.
Set in the Caribbean world of offshore money, expats, regulators, criminals and people who aren't quite sure which category they belong in, One Smart Dead is a blackly comic crime novel about what happens when a banker discovers that spreadsheets are considerably easier to manage than people.
Paul understands money. He understands risk. He even understands, in principle, that getting married requires turning up at the wedding.
What he doesn't understand is quite how much trouble he's in.
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