{"product_id":"the-fixer-philip-stengel-9798284847893","title":"The Fixer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe city has a man for every kind of problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the problem is too dirty for lawyers, too dangerous for police, and too expensive for amateurs, they call the Fixer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis latest assignment should have been simple: recover a blackmail file from a frightened nobody, keep Victor Grayson's secrets buried, and walk away clean. Instead, the deal becomes an ambush. Someone else knew about the job. Someone higher, colder, and more organized than a desperate blackmailer. By dawn, the Fixer has a stolen drive, a missing brother, and proof that the city's corruption runs through private clubs, dock warehouses, shell companies, protected vaults, and men who have learned how to make power look respectable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the conspiracy is a structure called the Broker, not a single mastermind, but a function passed between people who specialize in leverage, violence, logistics, and silence. Mara Vale opens doors for it. Marcus Kane enforces its will. Victor Grayson feeds it under the illusion of control. And somewhere above them all stands Viktor Stahl, the mentor the Fixer thought had died years ago, now returned as the architect behind a machine built from debt, blackmail, trafficking, and civic decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the operation widens, the Fixer is forced into alliances he would once have rejected, with Detective Lena Marquez, hacker Eva Voss, compromised officer Sarah Carter, and the brother he once walked away from. What begins as a retrieval becomes a war over hidden archives, moving captives, buried medical records, a supposedly dead brother, and a mother long thought lost to a staged past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fixer\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark crime thriller about corruption as infrastructure, family as leverage, and the brutal price of pulling the right thread in a city built to close over its own wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Stengel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798284847893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Philip Stengel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49169445716223,"sku":"9798284847893","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fixer-philip-stengel-9798284847893","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}