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The Slovenian Lie: Case Files from a Blackmail Fixer
Paperback
Series: Case Files
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A man hires me to stop a blackmailer.
That's what he said.
It wasn't the truth.
He told me it was about stolen business files.
Leverage. Money. Exposure.
Simple.
Clean.
Manageable.
It wasn't any of those.
The more I looked, the more things didn't add up.
Then the blackmailer showed himself.
Not a man hiding behind a screen.
Not some offshore scammer following a script.
This one was different.
Connected. Violent. Patient.
The kind of man who doesn't bluff.
The kind of man who finishes things.
That's when the story changed.
What I was brought in to handle wasn't blackmail.
It was something else entirely.
Something the client never intended to say out loud.
By the time I understood the truth, I was already inside it.
Part of it.
Used.
The Slovenian Lie is a method - a way to turn someone into a weapon without them realizing it.
And in this case...
That someone was me.
This is not a traditional thriller.
It reads like a case file.
Direct. Controlled. Unfolding in real time.
This is not a story about technology.
It is about people.
How they lie.
How they panic.
How they try to control situations that are already out of control.
And what happens when they fail.
From Frank M. Ahearn, New York Times bestselling author of How to Disappear, comes a case file drawn from the world of blackmail, manipulation, and high-risk decisions.
Part of the Case Files from a Blackmail Fixer series, this novella takes you inside a situation where nothing is what it seems - and the real danger isn't always the man making the threat.
Sometimes, it's the man who made the deal.
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