Release Blitz: False Hope by Steve Shipley

 

Title: False Hope

Series: Blake Willis Thriller Series Book Three

Author: Steve Shipley 

Genre: Crime Thriller

Release Date: February 25, 2025

Some secrets should never see the light of day.

When a priceless religious artifact vanishes, cybersecurity expert Blake Willis is thrust into a perilous race against time. The trail of the stolen treasure winds through shadowy global markets, where power and greed collide—and where murder is only the beginning.

As Blake digs deeper, his investigation unearths a chilling connection to his own family. To infiltrate the illegal art trade and find the thief, he reluctantly agrees to an audacious plan: sending an untested yet brilliant art historian undercover. She’s determined, seductive, and dangerously close to the truth.

As she becomes entangled in a web of lies in the ruthless art underworld, her mission takes a deadly turn. With time running out, Blake must make an impossible choice—sacrifice a priceless artifact, or risk his agent’s life to expose a billion-dollar conspiracy that could shatter the art world.

Can Blake save either or both before it's too late, or will false hope be his undoing?

  

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Book Review: False Trust by Steve Shipley

  For this review, I chose False Trust by Steve Shipley.

I picked this ebook from the selection of Kindle Unlimited books.

Here is a brief description from Goodreads:

Some lines should never be crossed.

Blake Willis has the perfect life - a beautiful wife, two great kids, and a thriving business doing what he loves as a cybersecurity consultant. Determined to secure his family’s financial future, Blake enlists the help of an old friend, tech billionaire and world-renowned whisky expert, Justin Coulter, to help him sell his grandpa’s “million-dollar moonshine.”

Everything is running smoothly until a shocking discovery rocks Blake’s world. The whisky is stolen and his caretaker is murdered. And worse, his wife is missing.

In a frantic race against time, the lines of trust blur. Blake’s friends and enemies — and maybe even his wife — are not who he thought they were. And the technology, money and global control at stake have now drawn disreputable foreign powers into the mix.

Is there anyone who he can trust — and who has crossed the line that can never be uncrossed?

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Blake thinks he has it all.  Beautiful wife, great kids, great business,  and soon to be rich, but then everything changes in one moment.  His caretaker was murdered and his grandfather's whiskey was stolen.  Who did this?  Blake is questioning everything in his life.  Who can he trust?  Overall, this was an intriguing thriller of who did it.

A little confusing at first with the different time periods.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

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Release Blitz: False Trust by Steve Shipley

 

Title: False Trust

Series: Blake Willis Thriller Series Book One

Author: Steve Shipley

Genre: Thriller

Release Date: August 9, 2022

Some lines should never be crossed.

Blake Willis has the perfect life - a beautiful wife, two great kids, and a thriving business doing what he loves as a cybersecurity consultant. Determined to secure his family’s financial future, Blake enlists the help of an old friend, tech billionaire and world-renowned whisky expert, Justin Coulter, to help him sell his grandpa’s “million-dollar moonshine.”

Everything is running smoothly until a shocking discovery rocks Blake’s world. The whisky is stolen and his caretaker is murdered. And worse, his wife is missing.

In a frantic race against time, the lines of trust blur. Blake’s friends and enemies — and maybe even his wife — are not who he thought they were. And the technology, money and global control at stake have now drawn disreputable foreign powers into the mix.

Is there anyone who he can trust — and who has crossed the line that can never be uncrossed?

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Prologue

The call changed everything.

The call ordering me to stand down. I stood, walking in circles, the rage stiffening my neck, eyes drawn to my gun safe. I paced toward it, then shuffled back. They had kidnapped my wife, intent on destroying me. But I didn’t know who or why.

I had held a gun many times in the last decade, but not since protecting the US Secretary of State several years ago. It was the first and only time I killed anyone. I’d never completely recovered. I hated guns, hated killing, until now. Sometimes killing was necessary. Grandpa had taught me that. And I would again if that’s what it took to get Rebecca back.

Approaching the safe, I removed the Glock 17 and 26. The only thing that mattered was rescuing Rebecca.

Our sons needed their mother, I needed my wife, and would do anything to find her or die trying.

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