BERTRAND

by MARK BERTRAND

He lost everything that proved he existed, except the story you’re about to read.

BERTRAND

by Mark Bertrand

A standalone novel, book 2 in a three-book series.

A Psychological Crime Thriller Drawn from Lived Fire

In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, as America traded factories for balance sheets and power moved from industry to finance, Mark, call sign Phil, refused the quiet life of labor.

A former naval aviator turned engineer, he entered a world of offshore accounts, shell nonprofits, hidden money, and dangerous leverage.

Each move gave him more power inside the system even as the system consumed him. Friends disappeared. Governments circled. Betrayals struck close. Wealth promised freedom, but every mask he wore to gain it stripped away another layer of self.

At the height of the climb, he discovered the real price of mastery: to survive the system, he would have to become something harder than the man who entered it.

In a country trading muscle for money, his reckoning became more than financial. It became existential. Was freedom ever real, or just another mask worn long enough to feel like skin?

DOSSIER // BOOK PROFILE

STATUS: ACTIVE
TITLE: BERTRAND
ISBN: 9798993104324
SERIES: MARRIED STUPID // BOOK 02
GENRE: CRIME THRILLER / FINANCIAL THRILLER / PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
THREAT MODEL: FAMILY LEGACY / CARTEL PRESSURE / BURIED CRIME / MORAL CONSEQUENCE
PAGE COUNT: 300
READ TIME: 8 - 10 HOURS
PRIMARY THEMES: BLOODLINE · VIOLENCE · FATHERHOOD · CRIME · LOYALTY · CONSEQUENCE
COMPARATIVE AUTHORS: DON WINSLOW · S. A. COSBY · DENNIS LEHANE
PACING MODEL: CRIME-THRILLER ESCALATION / FINANCIAL PRESSURE/LAUNDERING
SETTING: COLORADO · LAS VEGAS · CARTEL TERRITORY · FAMILY HISTORY
TONE: HARD-EDGED · PERSONAL · VIOLENT · MORALLY CHARGED · UNSENTIMENTAL
PUBLISHER: NOT A REAL PUBLISHER LLC
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
AVAILABILITY: IN STOCK