The Cobalt Mirage (eBook, ePUB)

The Cobalt Mirage is a razor-edged noir thriller soaked in bourbon, betrayal, and the bloodstains of buried truths. Set in a rain-slicked city that never sleeps, it follows hard-bitten private detective Dempsey as he‘s drawn into a mystery deeper than any he‘s faced before. One that starts with a woman in a red coat, a cursed sapphire, and a tech mogul‘s ledger of sins.What begins as a case about a missing gemstone quickly unravels into a global conspiracy of offshore accounts, international arms deals, and a data trail encrypted in blood and silence. The sapphire isn‘t just valuable, it‘s a key to Maxwell‘s shadow empire, one that corrupts or kills anyone who touches it.From penthouse vaults to Chinatown alleys, Bangkok rooftops to smoke-choked jazz lounges, Dempsey wades through the lies of femme fatales, rogue mercenaries, and ghosts from his own past. Each chapter punches like a .38 slug, fast, sharp, and unforgiving.Then there‘s Lila Chen. A woman with a snake tattoo and more secrets than scars, whose trail runs cold two years after a job gone wrong in Bangkok. As the bodies stack up, Dempsey realizes the truth isn‘t just elusive, it‘s weaponized.A brutal collision of noir style and modern espionage, The Cobalt Mirage is soaked in cigarette smoke, framed by neon, and narrated in whiskey-stained prose. Gritty, fast-paced, and darkly poetic, this is noir for the 21st century. A story where curses are spreadsheets, and the only thing more dangerous than the lies... is the truth.If Raymond Chandler and John le Carré had a love child raised on cybercrime and jazz records, it would read like this.