Client: Simon Hayes
Simon got in touch with me in 2024 to enquire about my proofreading service. His novel, Zero Ri$k, had already been released in hardback, but some typos had been identified which he wanted fixed before the paperback was published, and that’s where I came in.
The book was just shy of 600 pages and 200,000 words. I gave Simon a fortnight turn-around time, but managed to get it fully proofread and sent back within 10 days.
He was very pleased with my service, providing me feedback:
“I just wanted to write and say an enormous thank you for the effort you clearly put into the proofread. Outstanding work…your work is exceptional. The Zero Ri$k paperback will be immeasurably better thanks to you.
Simon Hayes: Author of Zero Ri$k
TEN DAYS. SEVEN DEADLY SINS. ZERO RI$K.
When customer complaints on Christmas Eve about tenfold inflated bank balances herald not early gifts, nor a botched system upgrade, but the most sophisticated cyber-attack in history, new National Bank CEO Rob Tanner finds himself in the eye of a “Black Swan” storm no one predicted, but anyone could have anticipated.
He enlists the help of brilliant American computer security expert Ashley Markham but the attacks only worsen: bank balances rise remorselessly and spread to all the nation’s banks. The only clue to the hacker’s intentions are cryptic daily emails taunting Tanner and the newly incumbent Prime Minister, James Allen.
With financial markets – and the very world as he knows it – on the brink of collapse, Tanner races against the clock to decode not just the bizarre emails but their deeper meaning, and the implications for who he can really trust. All the while, his former boss “The Toad” is seeking revenge… and answers of his own.
This enthralling, multi-layered debut follows the story of a disillusioned banker facing the unthinkable where money has no value, stock and bond prices are meaningless, and the economy is destroyed. Tanner must unravel the mystery of the hacker’s obsession with Hieronymus Bosch’s medieval representation of the seven deadly sins before modern society returns to the dark ages.
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