Based on a true story!

It’s the mid-2020s. The pandemic is becoming endemic. Alby O’Brien is hiding in his cave-like garage apartment in Southern New Jersey to escape the wrath of terrorists who are after him. Believing he is safe, he supports himself on under-the-table fix-it work with his nephew, Stephen, while wrestling with terrifying nightmares of what happened in Iraq. Now, however, his minimalist existence is about to end with very dire consequences.

Within the first 24 hours of this one-week, fast-paced thriller, Alby becomes the unintentional instigator of a major robbery; encounters Ginger, a gorgeous, fast-talking woman with a mysterious past; and collides with a psychotically polite and vicious killer named Jagger. Something very valuable has been taken from a mob-run bank, and now, everyone is after Alby. Despite being hunted down by terrorists and a hired assassin, he can’t stop thinking about the alluringly volatile Ginger. As it all comes to a head, Alby knows that his fate could go either way—the end of his life or the beginning of his redemption through love.

Break the Bank—volume one of three—is based on a true story told to the author by his father about a heist at a mob bank and its violent consequences that lead to love. How did his father know the story so well? He was there.