FLEECED NATION

0741 PACIFIC CONTINENTAL in 95,000.00 RCV ok 0742 MULE / WeChat $200 out 95,000.00 PICKUP 0743 P2P BROKER conv BTC/USDT veiled 0744 ATOMIZE / 3 CHAINS split 11 min masked 0745 VPN WALLET x9 hop ---------- clean 0746 MIRROR SETTLEMENT conv CMLN cleared 0747 GOLDEN PACIFIC in 118,000.00 RCV ok 0748 EASTERN HERITAGE in 65,000.00 RCV ok 0749 HAPPY STAR LOGISTICS ref Hao Wang Gale Ave 0750 RITZ 27C recv clean no touch 0751 CATHAY 883 LAX>HKG dep 06:00 gone 0752 DESK PHONE ring 08:17 new name

A crime-fiction series · Peter Hish

FLEECEDNATION

They don't just take the money. They take the thing you don't get back.

Six novels inside a Los Angeles fraud unit that is always one warrant behind the people it hunts. Drawn from twenty-seven years of the real thing.

Read the first chapter Meet the series

$95,000 → mule → P2P broker → three blockchains → clean. Eleven minutes. The report reaches the detective three days later.

“This is not a complicated country.”

Victor Zhang · recovered audio · Fleeced Nation

We keep calling these people victims of non-violent crime. We should start calling them what they are. Casualties.

Det. Tommy Ruiz · Fleeced Nation

Case One · Out to agents

Fleeced Nation

Lead — Det. Ethan Cole · LASD Fraud & Cyber Crimes

A seventy-one-year-old widow hands ninety-five thousand dollars in cash to a stranger in a parking lot. By the time the report reaches Detective Ethan Cole, the money has been split across three blockchains and washed clean in eleven minutes.

One victim becomes a map. Call centers. Mules cut loose before the ink dries. A kingpin downtown who never touches a dollar and lives like a hotel guest. Cole can build the case. Whether the system will let him close it before the desk phone rings again is the whole question.

A standalone crime novel and the opening of a six-book series. 93,000 words. Comps in the vein of Winslow, Sheridan, and Connelly.

Status — Seeking representation

The series · Six books · Rotating leads

Each book hands the badge to a different detective on the same unit.

The scams change. The victims change. The eleven-minute math does not. One team, one city, and an empire that keeps running no matter how many doors get kicked.

01Fleeced NationThe cash-pickup call that maps an entire industry.Ethan Cole

02Supply LineA gold-bar sweep runs into a cartel pipeline while his own life comes apart.Tommy Ruiz

03Ghost FloorThe money was clean before it ever left the country.Isabella Vega · HSI

04Quiet HoursThirty years in, the cost of the files that were left to sit.Patrick Donovan

05Cold WalletA war fought in wallets, mirror transactions, and eleven-minute windows.Anthony Reynolds

06Last MileThe one who kicks the door, and the room he finds behind it.Derek Shaw

Book One complete and in submission. Books Two through Six in development.

The author

Peter Hish worked the desk these books are written from.

Peter Hish spent twenty-seven years in Southern California law enforcement, the last decade running a cyber and financial crimes unit. He worked the cash-pickup calls, the business-email compromises, the pig-butchering files that ran into the millions, and the money that was gone before the report was ever written.

Fleeced Nation is drawn from that desk. He is also the author of Hacked or Hardened, a nonfiction guide to cyber risk for business owners, and he writes on fraud and financial crime for law enforcement and the public.

27 years, law enforcement Cyber & financial crimes The cases are real

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