Square Knot

Some secrets are tied tight. Until you pull the wrong end.

Six bodies in the mountains. A boy who knows too much. A conspiracy ready to detonate.

High in the frozen peaks of the Balkan Mountains, six bodies are discovered. The police are quick to provide a convenient explanation: a mass ritual suicide. The investigators rush to close the case, and the media swallows the lie whole.

But the footprints in the snow, the smell of bleach, and the scattered shell casings tell a very different story—a story of a ruthless execution carried out by professionals.

Viktor Sokolov is a former criminal profiler who left Bulgaria's elite anti-terror unit in disgust with a deeply corrupt system. Now a corporate investigator hunting financial fraudsters in Geneva, he believes his past is finally buried. Until a desperate phone call shatters his meticulously ordered life.

His 15-year-old nephew, Martin, has just become the target of a shadow network of mercenaries, dirty cops, and political puppet masters.

To save the only family he has left, Viktor must return to the mud and corruption of Sofia, facing a world where the law has lost all meaning. He has only hours to unravel a deadly puzzle left behind by a murdered teenager—a brilliant boy who hid the state's most dangerous secret behind a seemingly ordinary alpine knot.

The clock is ticking. The targets are locked. And the hunters are closing in.

Square Knot is the explosive first book in The Beyond the Petrohan Files Trilogy. A dark, cinematic, and breathtaking thriller that blends high-stakes action with gritty, atmospheric noir.

Why readers will be gripped:

Relentless Pacing: The action starts on page one and doesn't let up until the final twist.

Gritty Realism: A chilling look into the deadly symbiosis of organized crime, covert agencies, and deep state politics.

Intelligent Mystery: A complex puzzle of cryptography and investigation where the mind must be sharper than the bullet.