SHADOW CODE

Book One of the Gaurav Mishra Series - A Tech-Noir Financial ThrillerThe data never sleeps. Neither does the man who reads it.Gaurav Mishra has just closed the biggest case of his career: a criminal network laundering money through a maze of shells and shadow accounts, dismantled after months of quiet, sleepless work. He is supposed to be off the board.Then a man turns up dead in a Phuket villa and the money trail restarts, using the exact patterns Gaurav thought he'd buried for good.Pulled back in under the cover of a routine IT audit, Gaurav is embedded with a regional task force to find out who resurrected a laundering system built on his own tools. What starts as a forensic trace through corrupted logs and offshore holding companies quickly becomes something more dangerous: the trail leads inside the bank itself, through the people running the audit, and into a network that has been watching him as closely as he's been watching it.As bodies accumulate and the line between colleague and suspect disappears, Gaurav has to decide how far he's willing to go to close a case that was never supposed to be his, and how much of himself he's willing to burn to do it.Shadow Code is a fast-paced, code-and-consequence thriller for readers who like their financial crime technical, their conspiracies patient, and their heroes running on caffeine and instinct.