He Will Deceive

Alex Harper #5

by Mark Ayre

When a working-class man approaching retirement after a life spent struggling to make ends meet and the son of a billionaire who has never had to work a day in his life go missing on the same night, it seems the disappearances must be unconnected. After all, the men are from different worlds, and there is no evidence they have ever met. That is until Xander and Lexi Harper become involved in finding the missing men. Before long, they meet a witness who saw the men together with a young woman on the night they vanished. Then they find the woman. Dead. It soon becomes clear not only that the men knew each other but that they were involved in something far more dangerous than either of them could have anticipated. To find the men, the Harpers will have to discover what they were up to. But someone is already dead, and if Xander and Lexi aren’t careful, they could be next…

398 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 2, 2023

About the author

An avid writer since crafting a moving story of a penguin trying to find his way home (sadly no longer in print) when he was a mere six years old, Mark has started hundreds of novels and written millions of words.

Recently learning how to curb his imagination and actually get something done, he now writes character-driven suspense thrillers, often with supernatural elements.

Like all great authors, he writes about himself in the third person, as though he has enough money to afford a publicist.