Million Dollar Major

Major Jonathan Pane survived five tours of war only to discover that peace was harder to live with. After eighteen years in the British Army and a successful career on the City trading floor, JP returns to Maguire Bank carrying unresolved grief and wounds that never properly healed. Gifted with an extraordinary ability to recognise patterns and anomalies others miss, he has spent his life finding order in chaos, whether on the battlefield or in the markets When irregularities surface around a military aviation contract linked to his former boss, billionaire financier Jacob Lucifan, JP finds himself confronting a past he believed he had left behind. What begins as a private investigation into a suspicious deal quickly uncovers something far more dangerous than corporate corruption. Drawn deeper into the mystery, JP is pulled into a hidden world where global finance, private warfare, and political influence collide in the shadows. What begins in London spirals into a deadly pursuit across the Scottish Highlands, Switzerland, and Monaco. At the centre of the conspiracy lies a multi-billion-pound Bitcoin fortune, a clandestine network manipulating conflicts for profit, and a ruthless broker known only as the Taxman, a man whose reach extends far beyond governments, intelligence agencies, or financial markets. JP believes the money could transform the lives of the veterans abandoned by the wars that made him. But as the conspiracy deepens, so too does the truth he has spent years avoiding. The closer he gets to Jacob Lucifan and the forces surrounding him, the harder it becomes to separate justice from revenge. What began as an investigation starts to feel like something else entirely: a war he finally feels entitled to fight. With two trusted former soldiers at his side, JP must navigate fractured loyalties, buried secrets, and the ghosts he carries into every battle. Because the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realises that the real enemy is not just the Taxman, but the system that created him. Million Dollar Major is the first instalment in a gripping new thriller series for readers of Terry Hayes, James Swallow, Lee Child, and Mick Herron. Dark, intelligent, and propulsive, it explores hidden power, financial corruption, inequality, and the lasting cost of carrying the dead with you into every fight.