Scam at the Ranches

Mike Mackay

Book Six. A Jack Rhodes Thriller

A borrowed Porsche. A baseball bat. A dead woman who hadn’t been who she seemed.

Jack Rhodes hadn’t been meant to be a part of it, but once he was, he couldn’t walk away. He started pulling on a thread that dragged him beneath San Francisco’s polished surface, into a world where men who had believed themselves “untouchable” became the quiet victims of vigilante justice.

And what began with one death quickly led to kidnapping, trafficking, and a deadly entanglement with a dangerous cartel. Jack had to find a way to help Auntie Mei and Clara Baxter — the elegant, implacable leaders of a discreet network — save the thirty‑eight helpless, stolen women held by predator Vincent Raines in his scattered ranches across the remote California hills.

Jack needed every one of his unique skills as a forensic analyst and MMA fighter just to have a chance of making it out alive.

 

– Book release: late July 2026 –

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About the Author

Mike has always wanted to tell stories. Possibly due to his Scottish/Irish Heritage. These stories have taken many forms; novels, short stories, poems, and spoken. They are now seeing the light of day via his publisher

In his work as an independent contractor in the IT Industry, he has created businesses, owned a five-star game farm, a one-star pub, driven trucks for his horse transport business, worked for a gangster, made money, lost money and made it again.. He is a fisherman, a hunter, a surfer, a water-skier, a scuba-diver, a polocrosse player, a black belt karateka, a tournament fighter, and a daily writer in his journal. He has worked on every continent and every business sector.
He has been married three times, has five biological children, three step-children and eight grandchildren. They live in England, South Africa, Australia and China. Mike now lives back in the land of his birth, Australia