Power protects its own.

Not everyone accepts that.

Novels about power, corruption and the price of truth.

Fractured Justice

Book 1 of the Fractured series

When his wife and children die in a house fire, Max Balliol is told it was a tragic accident.
The police close the case.
The system moves on.

Max doesn’t.

The questions he begins to ask lead into the heart of organised crime and institutional corruption. The closer he gets to the truth, the more the system turns against him.

The Fractured series

The fractured series examines organised crime, political power and institutional failure.
At its centre is Max Balliol — a man who refuses to look away.

Fractured Justice

Available now

Fractured State

In development

A. S. Calder

A. S. Calder writes novels about power, corruption and the cost of truth. His work is driven by a fascination with how institutions protect themselves — and what it takes to confront them.

The Fractured series follows Max Balliol as he challenges the systems that would prefer silence to scrutiny, forcing them into the open.

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