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Ryan Maddox — Pulp Vigilante Thrillers

Author of The Fox Files: razor-sharp, cinematic pulp-noir about a billionaire vigilante taking on a global syndicate.

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Biography

Ryan Maddox writes high-velocity pulp-noir with surgical detail and a cinematic punch.

His series The Fox Files follows Colt Fox — a young, stylish billionaire with a code, a past soaked in betrayal, and a private war against the global syndicate Hydra. Maddox blends ballistic realism, urban atmosphere, and relentless momentum into thrillers built to binge.

Release cadence: Book 1 available now. Book 2 (Shadows of Shenzhen) lands end of October 2025. Book 3 (Bloodline of Betrayal) follows. Join the newsletter below for ARCs & launch news.

Books — The Fox Files

Series · Story Summaries

Book 1 — Blood in Paradise

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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 Hydra.

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 Hydra’s American branch. Each step uncovers new layers of power and betrayal.

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 his jet crosses the