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Author Allen Stroud

When EPS Global uncovers a massive currency fraud designed to fund subversive forces in their opposition to the World Senate, a disgraced investigator is forced to return from retirement and finally uncover the truth about a previous case. Jackson Reeve and Francesca Agnelli must learn to trust each other again so they can track down the criminal behind the plan. Turns out, it’s an old enemy who should be dead. Number ten in The Fractal Series Episodes.

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Product details
eBook, 84 pages, 24000 words
ISBN: 9781805520023
Series: The Fractal Series Episodes

Available from 24 Feb 2026

£2.49

Allen Stroud

Allen Stroud is a lecturer and researcher at Coventry University. Stroud completed a Ph. D. at the University of Winchester entitled 'An Investigation and Application of Writing Structures and World Development Techniques in Science Fiction and Fantasy'. He has worked in computer games, roleplaying games, novels, short stories and scripts. He currently runs the Creative Futures research project with the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

Stroud was a founding host of Lave Radio, an Elite: Dangerous fan podcast that started in February 2013 and ran the annual convention Lavecon. His novel set in the Elite: Dangerous game world, called Elite: Lave Revolution was successfully funded on Kickstarter and published in late 2014, with a second edition published in 2015. Stroud then supported Spidermind Games in developing the Elite Dangerous Roleplaying Game. Stroud worked on Chaos Reborn with Snapshot Games and has worked on Phoenix Point, released in 2019.

Stroud was the 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023 chair of Fantasycon, the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society, which hosts the British Fantasy Awards. He was also Chair of the British Science Fiction Association from 2019 to 2025. Stroud continues to write academic papers, reviews, articles and fiction in science fiction, fantasy and horror. He lives in a messy house with three cats and his partner, Karen.