A Deadly Con

Jack Paxton is a claim-chaser, a quiet operative for the insurance industry trained to uncover fraud and protect the firm, until he cracks a cold case completely by accident and becomes an Internet celebrity overnight.
A dying media mogul drags Jack in and offers him a job outside his wheelhouse: identify the people leveraging graphic videos of his daughter against his fortune and good name. Pay up, or they go live with the "truth" at the largest pop culture convention in the world.
Protecting a dying man's daughter is all the motivation Jack needs. He just wants his day rate and expenses paid.
It should be an easy gig. Instead, it plunges Jack into DrakkenFest-where everyone wears a mask, and the cameras never stop watching. In the crowded corridors between ballrooms and dealer tables, panel halls and science exhibits, he finds Echo Eversong-sharp, self-contained, and above the synthetic reality peddled by sinister vendors. She knows the angles. She knows the tells. Echo might be the only straight line in the whole tangled mess.
Like that old media mogul, the real, analog world is dying. What waits offstage to replace it is the real threat Jack and Echo must face.
A Deadly Con is a modern noir tale -where the bright lights of fame are there to shine on anyone who can stand the exposure, where technology can realize any dream for a price, and escape is just another kind of prison.

A collected print edition of the dramatized audio novel script. All 12 episodes in one book.