The Standby
Fife, Scotland
A man dies inside a fermentation vessel at a bioethanol plant. Five safety barriers failed, and the inquiry has already written them all down. The novelette that opens the series.
Read it free →Alexandre Sarraf investigates industrial deaths that have already been ruled accidental. Each book takes one site, one fatality, and one claim, and works out what actually happened to the person and what it will cost the people still standing.
Fair-play, closed-circle mysteries. Real cities, invented sites. Four novels plus the novelette, arc closed at Book 4.
Fife, Scotland
A man dies inside a fermentation vessel at a bioethanol plant. Five safety barriers failed, and the inquiry has already written them all down. The novelette that opens the series.
Read it free →
Botlek, Rotterdam
A tank terminal, one fatality, a claim of thirty-one million euros, and paperwork signed by a man who hadn't set foot on site in eleven weeks.
About The Permit →Liberty County, Texas
A wireline crew. A perforating gun that detonates at surface. Three men dead in the same ten seconds, and a verdict nobody had to wait for.
About The Arming →Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Contract labour, a permit signed across three employers, and a death benefit paid in a currency the widow has never held.
Zurich
The finale. The reinsurer itself.