State of Deception - Softcover

Royall, David

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798253348543

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

He spent his life managing risk.
Now he’s become the biggest one in the system.

Daniel Harcourt is a senior risk executive at a leading London investment firm.

Calm, precise, and trusted, his job is to find problems before they become crises.
Until he finds one that shouldn’t exist.

A routine review uncovers a hidden financial structure, billions in liabilities quietly moved offshore, disguised through complex accounting and legal interpretation. But this isn’t a mistake.
It’s deliberate.

Before Daniel can act, a colleague investigating the same structure dies in a suspicious fall at St Pancras station.
Hours later, Daniel’s name is already in the headlines.

Secrets, Power, Betrayal

As the pressure closes in, Daniel realises the truth is far more dangerous than corporate misconduct. The structure he uncovered reaches beyond banking into governments, markets, and the fragile systems holding the global economy together.

And someone has already decided he will take the fall.
Now Daniel faces an impossible choice:

Expose the truth and destroy everything that depends on it or stay silent and become the story they need.

Because in a system built to control risk the truth is the only thing it cannot survive.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798253348543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297