A novel by Andy Owen
Dirty money is never yours. You are just its keeper…
A city built on wealth, whispers and well-dressed lies. Beneath the gleam of global finance, a darker economy thrives – one ruled not by markets, but by men like Kit Hadley.
Hadley was more than a crime lord. He was infrastructure. The man who knew where the real power lived – and how to tax it. His empire stretched across ports, clubs, boardrooms and back channels. Unseen. Untouchable.
For years, Hadley built and ruled a complex empire of substance, moving influence and wealth through the cracks others couldn’t see. He was the man nobody crossed. Then someone stole a fortune from under his nose.
A daring, devastating robbery struck at the heart of the city’s hidden wealth. Tens of millions of covert, untraceable government money disappeared in a single night.
And it didn’t just vanish. It was taken. The robbery was more than a theft. It was a provocation. A message. And it happened on Hadley’s turf.
The theft triggered a wave of silent chaos. Behind closed doors, the British Government scrambled to contain the scandal – terrified that the missing money would surface in the wrong hands.
Across the Atlantic, the Americans were watching. Furious. And closer than anyone realised. In the East, old names stirred – Russian interests, half-buried in finance and intelligence, began circling like sharks sensing blood in the water.
What followed was a brutal chess game. The streets trembled. Trusts shattered. Hidden alliances were tested and betrayed. Hadley, driven by fury and strategy, began pulling strings others didn’t even know existed – reshaping the board beneath everyone’s feet.
As institutions flinched and loyalties fractured, Hadley did not. He wasn’t chasing justice. He was taking back control – of the streets, the networks, and the narrative.
Meanwhile, Declan Rafferty, the Irishman with enough audacity to engineer the robbery – and a man with a talent for high-stakes finance – believed he had the perfect exit. But even in exile, power attracts enemies. Especially when it’s stolen.
As ‘Dirty Money – Last Man Standing’ closed, not everyone was still standing. And for those who were… the game was far from over.
Because power rarely forgives an insult…
Dirty Money – Last Man Standing is the first novel by Andy Owen, author of Dirty Money – The End Game, The Fourth Path and Words That Move Mountains.
