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Henry Crowne Paying the Price #2
Breaking Point
One financial terrorist in prison,
Two City bankers dead,
And … a $350 trillion banking scandal called LIBOR.
The suspicious suicide of two high-profile City bankers brings former QC Nancy Wu and Inspector Jonathan Pole together again in an investigation that implicates the UK government, the Bank of England, and London’s top banking executives.
As the true motive of the deaths continues to elude them, Nancy persuades a reluctant Inspector Pole to involve Henry Crowne. Once a brilliant financier, Henry is now serving a 30-year sentence in the obscure High Security Unit of HMP Belmarsh for financial terrorism.
A $350 trillion scandal is about to explode, rocking the fragile beginnings of the global recovery. Can the unlikely team unravel this complex puzzle before a dark plan destroys it all?
BREAKING PO!NT is a financial and espionage thriller, the second book in the 'Henry Crowne: Paying the Price series.If you like The Big Shortby Michael Lewis and The Fear Index by Robert Harris or the TV series The Bodyguard, you will enjoy the twists and turns of Freddie P Peters’ latest fast-paced thriller. Discover it now…
Two City bankers dead,
And … a $350 trillion banking scandal called LIBOR.
The suspicious suicide of two high-profile City bankers brings former QC Nancy Wu and Inspector Jonathan Pole together again in an investigation that implicates the UK government, the Bank of England, and London’s top banking executives.
As the true motive of the deaths continues to elude them, Nancy persuades a reluctant Inspector Pole to involve Henry Crowne. Once a brilliant financier, Henry is now serving a 30-year sentence in the obscure High Security Unit of HMP Belmarsh for financial terrorism.
A $350 trillion scandal is about to explode, rocking the fragile beginnings of the global recovery. Can the unlikely team unravel this complex puzzle before a dark plan destroys it all?
BREAKING PO!NT is a financial and espionage thriller, the second book in the 'Henry Crowne: Paying the Price series.If you like The Big Shortby Michael Lewis and The Fear Index by Robert Harris or the TV series The Bodyguard, you will enjoy the twists and turns of Freddie P Peters’ latest fast-paced thriller. Discover it now…
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2022
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About the author
Freddie P. Peters
15 books87 followersFreddie P Peters is the author of three international thriller series; the Henry Crowne financial and espionage thriller series , the Nancy Wu political crime thriller series and the River Swift thriller series. Freddie seeks to build edge-of-seat plots that enravel deep and dark secrets.
A law graduate from Sorbonne, Paris and King’s College, London, she started her career as a lawyer before becoming an investment banker. Her profession led her to travel extensively around the world from Europe to Asia as well as North America, the Middle East and Africa.
25 years spent in the Square Mile-City of London working for too-big-to-fail international banks did give Freddie a view, she likes to share on many hot topics from financial crisis to working in a high-octane, male dominated industry, from politics and the might of money to contemporary art.
The questions of ethics and the greater good, deception and secrecy inspire her writing. Her career placed her in a unique position to understand subterranean currents of power and how these can motivate or destroy people. Her extensive travels enabled her to experience and appreciate different countries and culture.
When she’s not scanning the news to find new ideas for her next plot or writing a new book, Freddie devotes her time to supporting emerging artists and small art galleries in addition to mentoring students and young professionals.
Henry and Nancy may not be easy to find but you can reach Freddie at https://freddieppeters.com/
Join Freddie’s book club to gain access to her free and exclusive prequel, INSURGENT, and her starter library. This will give you insights into the books’ background stories, free chapters and special offers which are exclusive to members of Freddie’s book club…
A law graduate from Sorbonne, Paris and King’s College, London, she started her career as a lawyer before becoming an investment banker. Her profession led her to travel extensively around the world from Europe to Asia as well as North America, the Middle East and Africa.
25 years spent in the Square Mile-City of London working for too-big-to-fail international banks did give Freddie a view, she likes to share on many hot topics from financial crisis to working in a high-octane, male dominated industry, from politics and the might of money to contemporary art.
The questions of ethics and the greater good, deception and secrecy inspire her writing. Her career placed her in a unique position to understand subterranean currents of power and how these can motivate or destroy people. Her extensive travels enabled her to experience and appreciate different countries and culture.
When she’s not scanning the news to find new ideas for her next plot or writing a new book, Freddie devotes her time to supporting emerging artists and small art galleries in addition to mentoring students and young professionals.
Henry and Nancy may not be easy to find but you can reach Freddie at https://freddieppeters.com/
Join Freddie’s book club to gain access to her free and exclusive prequel, INSURGENT, and her starter library. This will give you insights into the books’ background stories, free chapters and special offers which are exclusive to members of Freddie’s book club…
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January 25, 2019
Really enjoyable
This is second in the series and the character really developing. The storey line is very believable . Looking forward to book 3.
This is second in the series and the character really developing. The storey line is very believable . Looking forward to book 3.
July 18, 2023
4.5*
Still don't understand the banking stuff lol but the rest of it makes a great thrill. All of it does really. Its been some good reading. Wonder what Henry is up to.
Still don't understand the banking stuff lol but the rest of it makes a great thrill. All of it does really. Its been some good reading. Wonder what Henry is up to.
May 3, 2023
I received an ARC through "Booksprout" and I am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
In this story Henry is in prison after being convicted of terrorism for his help with the IRA. The story details what Henry's life is like on a day-to-day basis at the prison. It shows his day starting out at the gym and in the afternoon he works in the library. He looks forward to his visits from Nancy and also writing letters to her as well.
Nancy on the other hand, is at a women's conference where at a receprtion one of the guests happens to be discovered dead on the sidewalk. All signs point to him being a jumper. For this case Inspector Pole is brought in. Shortly thereafter, another person has died while his car was running in the garage and this too was believed to be a suicide. Pole has Nancy working as a consultant on these cases and she believes that these are murders and not suicides. Both of these victims were involved in the Banking industry and point to something going on.
Henry is aware of these events and has been looking into what might be the cause. In his last visit with Nancy, Henry presents his observations to her and suggests that Pole might want his help. He told her that he needed to be out of prison to do this work. While this is going on another member of Government involved with Banking as been in a hit-and-run accident and is in the hospital.
Henry has put all of this information and presented his findings. Everything points to another person being involved and who happens to be a friend of Nancy's that she was a mentor for.
To discover what event all the killings were associated with, what other person Nancy had to the facts pointed to and who was really responsible for the actions, then you need to read this book. The ending will have you questioning what is next?
In this story Henry is in prison after being convicted of terrorism for his help with the IRA. The story details what Henry's life is like on a day-to-day basis at the prison. It shows his day starting out at the gym and in the afternoon he works in the library. He looks forward to his visits from Nancy and also writing letters to her as well.
Nancy on the other hand, is at a women's conference where at a receprtion one of the guests happens to be discovered dead on the sidewalk. All signs point to him being a jumper. For this case Inspector Pole is brought in. Shortly thereafter, another person has died while his car was running in the garage and this too was believed to be a suicide. Pole has Nancy working as a consultant on these cases and she believes that these are murders and not suicides. Both of these victims were involved in the Banking industry and point to something going on.
Henry is aware of these events and has been looking into what might be the cause. In his last visit with Nancy, Henry presents his observations to her and suggests that Pole might want his help. He told her that he needed to be out of prison to do this work. While this is going on another member of Government involved with Banking as been in a hit-and-run accident and is in the hospital.
Henry has put all of this information and presented his findings. Everything points to another person being involved and who happens to be a friend of Nancy's that she was a mentor for.
To discover what event all the killings were associated with, what other person Nancy had to the facts pointed to and who was really responsible for the actions, then you need to read this book. The ending will have you questioning what is next?
November 23, 2019
#2 in the Henry Crown, Paying The Price Series.
We see the return of Henry. Nancy and Inspector Pole, but in this, Henry has been jailed for 30 years for his part in financial terrorism.
But, due to his expertise, Inspector Pole reluctantly needs his help on a new case.
Just as the financial crisis is easing there’s the threat of a new global financial catastrophe. Can Crowne, Nancy and Inspector Pole put a stop to it, or is someone more determined to stop them?
Another intense, gripping financial thriller from Freddie P Peters. Brilliant and very clever.
Thank you to Anne Cater and Random Things Tours for the opportunity to participate in this blog tour, for the promotional materials and a free copy of the book. This is my honest, unbiased review.
We see the return of Henry. Nancy and Inspector Pole, but in this, Henry has been jailed for 30 years for his part in financial terrorism.
But, due to his expertise, Inspector Pole reluctantly needs his help on a new case.
Just as the financial crisis is easing there’s the threat of a new global financial catastrophe. Can Crowne, Nancy and Inspector Pole put a stop to it, or is someone more determined to stop them?
Another intense, gripping financial thriller from Freddie P Peters. Brilliant and very clever.
Thank you to Anne Cater and Random Things Tours for the opportunity to participate in this blog tour, for the promotional materials and a free copy of the book. This is my honest, unbiased review.
September 30, 2019
I hugely enjoyed Breaking Point, the second book by Freddie P Peters. I became completely involved in the lives of the characters in the first book, Collap$e, and couldn’t wait to find out how the plot evolved. Breaking Point did not disappoint, if anything it is better than the first - which I couldn’t put down - with its fast pace and rich character development. Nancy, Henry, Jonathan and their triangular relationship involving city finance, terrorism, and physical attraction keeps one intrigued and guessing. The people they interact with in the worlds of art and the art market, banking and the criminal fringes add to the vividness of the story. I’d highly recommend this cracking read!
May 22, 2023
Intense gripping thriller. This is book 2 but it is standalone story…. Henry Crown has been locked up for three decades for the crime of financial terrorism. But both Nancy who looks forward to seeing on visits and her correspondence through letters to keep him sane and Inspector Pole need his help . There’s occurrences that only his sort of insight can navigate. For Nancy it seems a little close for comfort. I wasn’t sure what to expect as the author is new to me but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s wrote well with good background.
I received an arc of this and my review is voluntary
I received an arc of this and my review is voluntary
July 10, 2019
The story and characters continue to develop really well and again this is an absolute page turner leaving you with no choice but to buy the third book in this trilogy when it is released. I loved reading about areas in the City I know so well.
December 22, 2024
There are 3 themes in this story- Harry, Pool etal, and Brette. The action had me turning pages as soon as I finished the page. I liked the Poole-Nancy connection and how Harry is managing his mind while in prison. I didn’t care for the Brette- M16 bit
February 3, 2022
Thoroughly enjoyed the second book of this fabulous financial trilogy … looking forward to reading the next one.
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