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Chase Malone #7
Chasing Risk
They know what you like, who your friends are.
They know where you go, what you think.
They know the risk you pose . . .
And you know nothing.
A fugitive billionaire and a former spy stumble onto an ominous program where everything about our modern lives is dissected, processed, and packaged, not to sell us things, but to sell us ideas, to control us, to make sure we don’t shatter the illusion. Chase and Wen face the worst dangers of their lives when the most malicious organizations in the world see them as a critical risk.
The greatest risk of all is not taking a chance.
Can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series can be read in any order.
An Action Adventure Espionage TechnoThriller. Get it now!
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide,
a USA Today bestselling author who uses his unusual real-life experiences to color page-turning thrillers.
They know where you go, what you think.
They know the risk you pose . . .
And you know nothing.
A fugitive billionaire and a former spy stumble onto an ominous program where everything about our modern lives is dissected, processed, and packaged, not to sell us things, but to sell us ideas, to control us, to make sure we don’t shatter the illusion. Chase and Wen face the worst dangers of their lives when the most malicious organizations in the world see them as a critical risk.
The greatest risk of all is not taking a chance.
Can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series can be read in any order.
An Action Adventure Espionage TechnoThriller. Get it now!
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide,
a USA Today bestselling author who uses his unusual real-life experiences to color page-turning thrillers.
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Brandt Legg
45 books373 followersUSA TODAY Bestselling Author Brandt Legg uses his unusual real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He’s traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Secretary of Defense he still doesn’t like to talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
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December 30, 2020
Opening with the ominous “Darkness is waiting to snatch our innocence and shatter the illusion,” Chasing Kill is a fast-action techno-thriller in the Chase Wen Thrillers. Chase Malone, once a tech billionaire, and his girlfriend, Wen Sung, a former spy for the Chinese intelligence service, are pitted against a shadowy tech organization determined to collect our information not to sell us things but to control us. This is the great fear, the great ‘what if’ that seems not too far from reality. We can only hope it’s just fiction.
“They’ll use erasure, making your entire existence disappear till there’s nothing left to prove your life except the scared, shaking, empty shell of your body, roaming the streets.”
And at the end of all the unexpected twists and turns, “Risk still remains, even as he celebrate their victory over the enemy. “It’s like stamping out fire,” Chase says. There are still flames burning somewhere, and unless the public calls for change and protections, and demand their privacy back, sooner or later, it will engulf us all.”
I’ve been reading Brandt Legg’s thrillers and as soon as the new release came out I bought it. Love the action.
Five stars.
“They’ll use erasure, making your entire existence disappear till there’s nothing left to prove your life except the scared, shaking, empty shell of your body, roaming the streets.”
And at the end of all the unexpected twists and turns, “Risk still remains, even as he celebrate their victory over the enemy. “It’s like stamping out fire,” Chase says. There are still flames burning somewhere, and unless the public calls for change and protections, and demand their privacy back, sooner or later, it will engulf us all.”
I’ve been reading Brandt Legg’s thrillers and as soon as the new release came out I bought it. Love the action.
Five stars.
January 11, 2021
‘Chasing Risk’ is the seventh book of the Chase Malone/Wen Sung techno-thriller series by Brandt Legg. Moreover, like many of the others in this remarkable series, Legg hits the nail on the head with this tale. Almost no day goes by without us meeting new privacy issues, attempts by large corporations to obtain our personal data sometimes to sell on, sometimes to engorge their own databases, to complete the ‘profile’ they create about our individual needs and wants, all aimed at making more money for them. Personal data used to provide intelligence so that a company’s products can more exactly match our expectations; data held under the strictest access controls, protected from any and all attempts at making it public or stealing it, might sound appealing to some. The truth is, every year we read about several major breaches in the security of these databases where we, their customers, become the innocent victims as our information becomes the means for identity fraud and a long etc. As someone who has worked in the security business for over 40 years, I can categorically state that there are no security systems 100% effective. Nor will there be as long as human beings form part of the process.
Now, if that wasn’t scary enough, author Legg has taken a particular use of personal data, and created a convincing story of how this can be abused to the extent of changing the society we know, into something horrendous and terrifying. And when I say ‘convincing’, this was one scary novel!
This is a must-read novel for anyone living in the 21st century. That means you! Whilst entertaining and thrilling at the high standard we have come to expect from this author, it holds a severe warning for all.
Now, if that wasn’t scary enough, author Legg has taken a particular use of personal data, and created a convincing story of how this can be abused to the extent of changing the society we know, into something horrendous and terrifying. And when I say ‘convincing’, this was one scary novel!
This is a must-read novel for anyone living in the 21st century. That means you! Whilst entertaining and thrilling at the high standard we have come to expect from this author, it holds a severe warning for all.
January 3, 2021
In the high-powered techno-thriller “Chasing Risk" fugitive billionaire Chase Malone and former Spy Wen Sung are pitted against a shadowy tech organization backed by the ultra secret “Corporate Intelligence Security Section” (CISS) that can manipulate, control and destroy lives including that of Malone’s brother Boone.
Fast-paced and action-packed the plot opens when Chase and Wen acting as parents to the “created” boy Tu who they snatched from his communist captors are attacked by killers at a carnival only to get caught up in a cat and mouse game with the shadowy “HaPPI” organization that uses data collection company “BANGO” to garner information that destroys lives including Boone Malone’s.
Intensity and suspense build with their plan to bring down the organization facing snipers, gun fights, car chases, their car bombed and a kidnapping. Well-written, the page-turning tension mounts as the intrigue escalates, the plot flowing to a fascinating ending that promises more of the same in the future.
Breathing life into the story Brandt Legg creates characters like the logical, gutsy strategist and talented assassin Wen Sung; shrewd, risk-taker and billionaire Chase Malone; the delightfully brilliant young Tu; and the highly intelligent haphephobic Noah Graham,“the Astronaut”. Yet it’s the dark conniving of Dag Kirrem and the questionable actions of Tess Federgreen that fuel excitement and keep the reader glued to their seat and entranced until finished.
I thoroughly enjoyed “Chasing Risk” and intend to read other books in this series while making sure patrons in my library read this riveting and gripping technothriller.
Fast-paced and action-packed the plot opens when Chase and Wen acting as parents to the “created” boy Tu who they snatched from his communist captors are attacked by killers at a carnival only to get caught up in a cat and mouse game with the shadowy “HaPPI” organization that uses data collection company “BANGO” to garner information that destroys lives including Boone Malone’s.
Intensity and suspense build with their plan to bring down the organization facing snipers, gun fights, car chases, their car bombed and a kidnapping. Well-written, the page-turning tension mounts as the intrigue escalates, the plot flowing to a fascinating ending that promises more of the same in the future.
Breathing life into the story Brandt Legg creates characters like the logical, gutsy strategist and talented assassin Wen Sung; shrewd, risk-taker and billionaire Chase Malone; the delightfully brilliant young Tu; and the highly intelligent haphephobic Noah Graham,“the Astronaut”. Yet it’s the dark conniving of Dag Kirrem and the questionable actions of Tess Federgreen that fuel excitement and keep the reader glued to their seat and entranced until finished.
I thoroughly enjoyed “Chasing Risk” and intend to read other books in this series while making sure patrons in my library read this riveting and gripping technothriller.
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October 18, 2021They know what you like, who your friends are.
They know where you go, what you think.
They know the risk you pose . . .
And you know nothing.
A fugitive billionaire and a former spy stumble onto an ominous program where everything about our modern lives is dissected, processed, and packaged, not to sell us things, but to sell us ideas, to control us, to make sure we don’t shatter the illusion. Chase and Wen face the worst dangers of their lives when the most malicious organizations in the world see them as a critical risk.
The greatest risk of all is not taking a chance.
Can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series can be read in any order.
An Action Adventure Espionage TechnoThriller. Get it now!
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide,
a USA Today bestselling author who uses his unusual real-life experiences to color page-turning thrillers
They know where you go, what you think.
They know the risk you pose . . .
And you know nothing.
A fugitive billionaire and a former spy stumble onto an ominous program where everything about our modern lives is dissected, processed, and packaged, not to sell us things, but to sell us ideas, to control us, to make sure we don’t shatter the illusion. Chase and Wen face the worst dangers of their lives when the most malicious organizations in the world see them as a critical risk.
The greatest risk of all is not taking a chance.
Can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series can be read in any order.
An Action Adventure Espionage TechnoThriller. Get it now!
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide,
a USA Today bestselling author who uses his unusual real-life experiences to color page-turning thrillers
January 27, 2023
A cracking read.
At the start, the blurb said this could be read as a stand alone novel. Yes it can but it would be best read in the series. There is a great deal of backstory and even though this is basically covered within the narrative, it would be best to read the series. That is what I am going to do now as this book has got me hooked.
It is an interesting concept known as HAppi which is a possibility in this technical computerised world and it did need Chase and the team to prevent it becoming fulfilled. But there are interested parties determined to stop them. Gritty thriller.
At the start, the blurb said this could be read as a stand alone novel. Yes it can but it would be best read in the series. There is a great deal of backstory and even though this is basically covered within the narrative, it would be best to read the series. That is what I am going to do now as this book has got me hooked.
It is an interesting concept known as HAppi which is a possibility in this technical computerised world and it did need Chase and the team to prevent it becoming fulfilled. But there are interested parties determined to stop them. Gritty thriller.
March 25, 2022
Interesting story line, with lots of action.
This is the type of book that makes you think about how much we are turning over to the tech world. Gives a person a second thought about the outcome. There are a lot of characters, mostly bad guys that done come out on the good in the end. The group that work with Chase make the cut on the good side. It is amazing how Chase and his group come through all the gun fights with very little damage. The book is worth reading just to get an understanding what is coming from the tech end and some of it is already hear.
This is the type of book that makes you think about how much we are turning over to the tech world. Gives a person a second thought about the outcome. There are a lot of characters, mostly bad guys that done come out on the good in the end. The group that work with Chase make the cut on the good side. It is amazing how Chase and his group come through all the gun fights with very little damage. The book is worth reading just to get an understanding what is coming from the tech end and some of it is already hear.
November 7, 2021
Espionage and Shadow People
This is an intriguing mystery about people using computer programs to ruin peoples lives and force them to lose everything such as their bank accounts, job, cars, etc. Chase and Wen have a short window of time to make sure their team stops it from happening. Will they make it? Will they even survive before society is changed forever.
This is an intriguing mystery about people using computer programs to ruin peoples lives and force them to lose everything such as their bank accounts, job, cars, etc. Chase and Wen have a short window of time to make sure their team stops it from happening. Will they make it? Will they even survive before society is changed forever.
May 25, 2023
Fast pace book and keeps you wanting more. Technology robs everyone from personal interaction since eyes are glued on screens and how much information is being transmitted without our knowledge. As technology increases nothing will be hidden from our lives which is taken from each of us each and every day of our lives. Nothing will be hidden and also used against us.
October 23, 2021
This fast action tecno thriller gives the reader non-stop thrills!
Wow! Espionage! It's intense and suspensful!
It is A well written, fast paced page turner, containing a few unnessary cuss words.
Wow! Unnerving! Thrilling! Scary! Entertaining!
Pick up a copy today. Find out for yourself.
Wow! Espionage! It's intense and suspensful!
It is A well written, fast paced page turner, containing a few unnessary cuss words.
Wow! Unnerving! Thrilling! Scary! Entertaining!
Pick up a copy today. Find out for yourself.
November 1, 2021
Enjoyable story
This story is quite complicated right to the last few pages,where the author realises it is easier to stop and give a synopsis of the closing action and a blatant read my next book to find out how life progresses
This story is quite complicated right to the last few pages,where the author realises it is easier to stop and give a synopsis of the closing action and a blatant read my next book to find out how life progresses
November 5, 2021
I could follow the storyline, and it's a good suspenseful story, but there are too many characters and abbreviations and organizations - enough to make one discouraged and confused. Character description is missing; what do Chase and Wen look like?
December 25, 2021
Legg at his best
Current issues covered in story. CIA and various other government entities chasing control through data from every area of our lives input into one central database Equipped to ruin lives with corporations ruling. Chase and Wen off to save the world again
Current issues covered in story. CIA and various other government entities chasing control through data from every area of our lives input into one central database Equipped to ruin lives with corporations ruling. Chase and Wen off to save the world again
January 27, 2022
Good quick read
Loved the book and the twists kept the flow going. It was a great adventure from beginning to end. I will definitely be going back in the chase Malone series to read more.
Loved the book and the twists kept the flow going. It was a great adventure from beginning to end. I will definitely be going back in the chase Malone series to read more.
April 22, 2022
Another super fantastic read! Wen and Chase are constantly on the move and now they also have to shelter a son (Tu), as they are continually pursued by various groups and governments, trying to erase them from existence.
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July 25, 2022Social media or social credit
I've been reading about china's social credit score. Very scary. Multiply that and you have HaPPi. A simile but worse scenario that can have you erased.
I've been reading about china's social credit score. Very scary. Multiply that and you have HaPPi. A simile but worse scenario that can have you erased.
February 5, 2023
Really Good Story
I really like this author's work. His stories and characters are complex and thought-provoking, yet the story is easy to read. Looking forward to reading the next books of this series.
I really like this author's work. His stories and characters are complex and thought-provoking, yet the story is easy to read. Looking forward to reading the next books of this series.
October 23, 2021
Most intense book I have read during the past year.
October 25, 2021
Chasing Risk
Wow, great story and a little scary. This might someday be our future. This is a good read for people that like conspiracy theories.
Wow, great story and a little scary. This might someday be our future. This is a good read for people that like conspiracy theories.
November 10, 2021
Easy read page turner
Enjoyed book as short chapters and a page turner. See why we are told to limit our digital exposure. Espionage lives.
Enjoyed book as short chapters and a page turner. See why we are told to limit our digital exposure. Espionage lives.
November 18, 2021
Lots of promise
Started well but I thought the story and plot started to drift in the middle and sadly never really recovered.
Started well but I thought the story and plot started to drift in the middle and sadly never really recovered.
November 27, 2021
Very good tech book
This was a very good technology book with a very interesting storyline. I loved how there was action as well as suspense.
This was a very good technology book with a very interesting storyline. I loved how there was action as well as suspense.
December 4, 2021
Pretty exciting. Lots of dialogue and insight into people's thinking.
December 6, 2021
Loved it. Lots of action with a credible plot, just a bit scary thinking it could happen.
December 7, 2021
Fast read
I really enjoyed how the them built and there was always exciting action. I high recommend you any Chase Malone novel.
I really enjoyed how the them built and there was always exciting action. I high recommend you any Chase Malone novel.
January 7, 2022
Decent but
Somewhat overpopulated with characters. Disappointing and underdescribed meting out of bad guy's punishments. Decent pace though. Probably wouldn't recommend however.
Somewhat overpopulated with characters. Disappointing and underdescribed meting out of bad guy's punishments. Decent pace though. Probably wouldn't recommend however.
January 20, 2022
Scary tech
Loved the book. The concept of the AI and how we can be digitally tracked and analyzed is frightening stuff. An excellent series!
Loved the book. The concept of the AI and how we can be digitally tracked and analyzed is frightening stuff. An excellent series!
February 5, 2022
The rich couple who are also special ops who work to keep their friend and the government out of trouble but find themselves deep into it too.
July 7, 2022
Powerful
The action never stops. It is full throttle in every page. Chase and Web make a good team and future stories should be great as well.
The action never stops. It is full throttle in every page. Chase and Web make a good team and future stories should be great as well.
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September 2, 2023No complaints. Great read from page 1 to the end.Action & suspense throughout
March 28, 2024
All I can say is that I love his writings. The only thing bad is they're difficult to put down
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