The Dark Web Scam

by Michael P King

Overview

"King's smoothly executed and addictive series returns, offering cinematic action and a high body count."-Kirkus Reviews

How could a little murder-for-hire scam go so wrong?

The Travelers and a computer hacker are operating a dark web con, taking cash from suckers who think they're hiring contract killers. Easy money. And no one to complain to the police. But when an actual killer comes after them, they're on the hunt for payback.

Who sent the assassin who killed their partner? And why is he stalking a newspaper reporter?

Once the Travelers figure out who they're up against, they set a plan in motion to rob him and take revenge, but as the cat-and-mouse game progresses, and the police get involved, the Travelers find they're moving through a quagmire of drugs, sex trafficking, and greed where any misstep could lead to the morgue.

The Dark Web Scam is a hard-charging crime thriller. If you like criminal machinations, fast-paced action, and devious plot twists, you'll love the ninth novel in the Travelers series.

Buy now to start reading this addictive thriller.

The Travelers crime thrillers contain profanity, violence, and sexual situations typical of the genre and similar to R rated movies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952711022
Publisher:	Blurred Lines Press
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Series:	Travelers , #9
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

Editorial Reviews

2021-01-27
This ninth installment finds the series’ leads in a deep thicket of revenge after a simple scam goes wrong.

Philip and Carrie Benson, aka The Travelers, are longtime grifters currently living in a suburban home outside Denver, Colorado, with a hacker named Merlin Jimenez. Their latest scam is a website called Death Becomes You. People can pay $5,000 in bitcoin for the Bensons to whack someone—however, they don’t actually commit the murder. When a potential client asks for crime reporter Robin Simons to die in what seems like an overdose, the scammers become suspicious that the FBI has found them. Researching the client turns up Dr. John Pollock, a dentist in Cornwell, Indiana. The Travelers raise their fee to $12,000, which Pollock pays. They don’t know that Pollock uses his dental office to sell OxyContin pills provided by drug lord Dylan Anderson. Anderson, annoyed that Pollock would try to kill the reporter sniffing around their business on his own, plans to eliminate the Bensons. The hit man creates collateral damage before the Bensons take him down. Philip and Carrie then visit Cornwell to exact revenge and scoop up enough cash for their next vacation. King’s smoothly executed and addictive series returns, offering cinematic action and a high body count. This time, the plot twist involves a ring of sex traffickers. What begins as genuine concern for a teen named Gypsy escalates into war against a powerful thug and his crew. Dark humor prevails, as when the Travelers find the shabby apartment of their targets and Philip notes, “When they say crime doesn’t pay, they were talking about these two.” The violence is never glamorized (“He shifted his weight, heard the shot as he felt the bullet explode through his back into his gut”). The finale suggests the Travelers may have more vigilantism in their future.

This exceptionally violent, well-conceived series continues to explore the moral gray zone.

Kirkus Reviews