Ryan Maddox — Pulp Vigilante Thrillers

Book 1 — Blood in Paradise

Fifteen years ago, billionaire tech heirs the Fox family were slaughtered in what police called a home-invasion gone wrong. Only one survived: their teenage son Colt Fox, hospitalized after a sports accident the night his family died.

Raised by his grandfather—a retired Marine colonel who once ran covert operations—Colt grew into a man of wealth, precision, and vengeance. At twenty-five, he inherits a fractured empire and a fortune large enough to wage a private war.

From his oceanfront compound Flamingo Point on Grand Bahama, Colt lives a double life: public philanthropist and marine-research founder, covert hunter of the corrupt. His investigation into his parents’ murder leads into the rotting heart of Bahamian politics, where drug cartels, immigration units, and police collide under the protection of the global syndicate OceanArc.

When a stolen container and a dying informant reveal ties to human-trafficking routes between Nassau and Miami, Colt moves from the islands to the mainland—taking the fight to OceanArc’s American branch. Each step uncovers new layers of power: shell companies, Hydra Shipping, compromised agents, and an enemy that erases witnesses as fast as it profits from them.

Betrayals burn. Allies die. Governments look away. By the time Miami ignites, Colt Fox has destroyed an entire trafficking hub and vanished into legend—declared dead by the same media that once envied him. But the final image is clear: his jet crossing the Pacific, destination Shenzhen. The hunt has only begun.

Book 2 — Shadows of Shenzhen

Colt Fox is officially dead. After faking his death in Miami’s inferno, the billionaire vigilante slips beneath the digital radar and resurfaces in Asia — a ghost with one purpose: to dismantle OceanArc at its source.

Under forged identities and corporate fronts, Colt infiltrates the glittering underworld of Hong Kong finance and the smog-lit sprawl of Shenzhen, where OceanArc’s “Hydra Shipping” division hides something far darker than cargo. The syndicate launders billions through encrypted trade ledgers, merges human trafficking with AI-driven logistics, and builds a network of offshore servers protected by mercenary ex-agents and state interests.

Working from a high-rise lab disguised as a marine-tech startup, Colt rebuilds his global system — codename Specter Protocol — and teams up with Dr. Mei Lin, whose knowledge of biotech smuggling makes her both target and weapon. But the deeper they go, the more they realize that OceanArc is not just a corporation. It’s a hydra of nations, data, and betrayal.

When Colt’s safehouse in Kowloon is compromised, assassins flood the streets. A midnight extraction through Victoria Harbor becomes a neon war — boats exploding, drones hunting, Colt fighting through rain and gunfire with calm precision. Each clue leads closer to Weng Kai, OceanArc’s elusive Asian chief, a man who knows more about the Fox murders than anyone alive.

By the end, Colt burns Shenzhen’s main data-hub to ash, crippling OceanArc’s regional network — but he also learns the unthinkable: a Western financier bankrolled the hit that killed his family. That trail points to Europe. The next hunt begins in Germany.

Book 3 — Bloodlines of Betrayal

Germany. The financial heart of Europe. Colt Fox strikes at OceanArc’s money-laundering empire hidden behind the glass facades of Frankfurt and Berlin. As he dismantles the network, he’s betrayed by someone he trusted as an ally. For the first time, the hunter realizes he isn’t just being hunted — he’s being played. Until he flips the board with brutal precision.