Frank Daly Books: Crime, spy and dystopian fiction


Departure and Return: AI Out of Control

Harris/Knight Series Book 4 - €0.99

A murdered senior intelligence manager, an AI virtual agent who’s gone off the rails, a trip to London for revenge, and an impending cyberattack across London are the ingredients for this investigation by Ethan Harris and Amy Knight.
However, now that their relationship has broken down, they must carry on separately, dealing with personal and professional challenges while travelling between London, Berlin and Lisbon as the story unfolds.


Revenge: The Fall of Louis Turner - Price: €0.99 

Genre: Crime - Published by FrankDaly.com - 2019 - 350 Pages.

Louis Turner takes the law into his own hands, to avenge the actions of a rapist after the failure of the police to bring him to justice. But it’s the catalyst which changes his life forever. All he wanted was the continuation of his comfortable life when he was a successful writer. But now he has lost his muse, got into serious debt, is facing bankruptcy and death threats from a vicious London crime gang. His streetwise ex-con brother, Henry comes to stay and maybe he can help him. But it catapults Louis into a life of crime from which he thought he’d escaped many years earlier.


Stanley's Last Trip and Other Stories - Price: €0.99

Genre: Dystopian - Published by FrankDaly.com - 2019 - 260 Pages.

Eight stories exploring strange and quirky situations, with themes of revenge, survival, obsession, and murder. Set in dystopian worlds of Berlin, New York, London, Lisbon and Dublin, with an illustration for each story. (1) Stanley’s Last Trip. - Stanley Braun is trapped on an S-Bahn train in Berlin, but he can’t remember how he got there. (2) Noise and Death. - After a noisy start to his trip to Lisbon, Charlie’s upstairs neighbour, Marie, uses her charms to entice him to cover up a murder. (3) Vengeance. - Louis plans revenge after Annalise’s death at her apartment block in London. (4) Throwbacks. - A research project in Berlin uncovers a group of people with ancient genes. (5) Survival of the Species. - In London, the slow realisation that some humans have previously unknown brain mutations prompts new discrimination laws. (6) Tube Travel. - A new form of super-fast travel in the near future runs into difficulties. (7) Obsession. - Jack’s brief meeting with an elusive woman at an art exhibition in New York leads to fantasy and obsession. (8) After the Blackout. - Jake is surprised at how fast everything descends into the ‘law of the jungle’ after a blackout in Dublin. 


Ethan Harris Crime / Spy Series



The House Always Wins - Book 1 - Price: €0.99

Genre: Crime Spy - Published by FrankDaly.com - 2016 - 330 Pages.

Ethan Harris’ life is shattered by a series of apparently unconnected events: the murder of his wife, Rachel, a hacking incident at the bank where he works and the theft of his belongings on the underground. When DCI Scott investigates the case, he finds that Harris is not as squeaky clean as he initially thought; he has big debts and a gambling habit. When the investigation determines that Rachel was almost certainly killed by a professional hit-man, the focus turns to Ethan as the possible procurer of the contract. Devastated, Ethan searches through Rachel’s belongings for some clues, bringing him into the underworld of GCHQ, MI6 and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in a chase across London and Berlin to uncover the truth. 


The New Frontier - Book 2 - Price: €0.99

Genre: Crime Spy - Published by FrankDaly.com - 2017 - 446 Pages.

"It began with a desperate call from Berlin…" Moments before Axel Mueller was killed in Berlin, he phoned Amy Knight in London. She heard the shouting and the shots before everything went quiet. Desperately, she called Ethan Harris who was already in Berlin on other business. As she joined him to investigate, they were soon under surveillance by the Berlin police and also in the sights of the German Intelligence Agency (BND), as they uncovered secrets from the Stasi background of BND agents, Huber and Schreiber. Axel had also been investigating the Intelligence Conferences, a group of European agencies planning the development of "UberKon" a covert super intelligence agency. As they are pursued by the police and BND, Ethan and Amy race to uncover the information which resulted in Axel's death while trying to avoid being killed themselves. In the process Ethan is shocked as Amy's true nature is revealed.


Darkness Before Dawn - Book 3 - Price: €0.99

Genre: Crime Spy - Published By: FrankDaly.com - 2018 - 437 Pages.

When the “NeoHacker” group in Berlin discover top-secret information about Anton Ibsen, the virtual agent of the BND (German Intelligence services), the department chief, Moritz, orders them to be hunted down and terminated. Ethan Harris is back in Berlin investigating Andreas Keller, a former neo-Nazi with a history of violence. Meanwhile, Ethan’s girlfriend, Amy Knight, remains behind in London, in therapy, to help uncover the dark secrets from her past. Ethan finds links between the NeoHacker killings and the Keller case, and Amy joins him to help progress the investigation. They travel to Prague and Warsaw and back to Berlin following the trail of Keller.Meanwhile, Anton Ibsen employs all the technology at his disposal to create a political protégé and supports his rise in power by use of social media and UberKon, the population control software.It’s a hunt for the truth in the sea of lies in Berlin, and Ethan and Amy are pursued by BND agents as they try to uncover the secrets in the dark underbelly of German intelligence. It’s a voyage of discovery which has disastrous consequences for them on a personal basis.