The Not So Merry Adventures of Max Creed (The Modern Day Chronicles of Max Creed 1) by Matt Cost-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 8,2025

Max Creed is a fictional person created to bring justice to those wronged by the ultra-wealthy in a world where the law overwhelmingly favors those with money and power. He is bound only by the laws of humanity and not those of the legal system.

When Sevyn Knight hires Max Creed and his disciples to right the wrongs done to her father at the hands of billionaire playboy Rupert Hastings, the game is afoot. Creed must enmesh himself in the world of the immoral tycoon in order to destroy him, but the temptations of sin and the allure of the pleasures of the rich and famous tease the very fabric of his being.

Aided by his business manager, John Little, the former assassin, Scarlett, the tech wizard, Scads, the attorney, Marian, and the financial guru, Tucker, Creed races against time to stop Hastings from becoming all-powerful as murky figures appear on the darkest edges of his fiefdom.

A breathless thrill ride that will keep your heart pounding long after the last page is turned.

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REVIEW: THE NOT SO MERRY ADVENTURES OF MAX  CREED is the first instalment in Matt Cost’s contemporary, adult THE MODERN DAY CHRONICLES OF MAX CREED suspense series focusing on Max Creed and his band of investigators and assassins.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Max Creed, using present day and memories from the past, THE NOT SO MERRY ADVENTURES OF MAX CREED follows Max aka former PI Milo Sharp, as he takes on the baddest of the bad. Approximately five years earlier, Milo lost the love of his life to an assassin’s bullet, and in the interim our hero has destroyed the man who destroyed his life. Another billionaire’s powerful reach has devastated many more families, leaving the grieving families struggling to understand. Max Creed has been approached in the hopes he and his team will take on the case but from the outset nothing goes according to plan, and at every turn, the team will be sabotaged and targeted by the very people Creed is hoping to take down. Meanwhile, one of their own has been threatened for the sins of the father, and in this, the Chinese Triad and Cartel want a piece of our story line hero.

The world building is detailed and complex as the reader is introduced to Max Creed ,and his unflinching team with secrets of their own, secrets that are about to play into a possible betrayal of our story line hero. The large ensemble cast of colorful, charismatic and energetic secondary and supporting characters each have a specific role to play in Max Creed’s investigative journey, a journey Max believes he will not survive.

THE NOT SO MERRY ADVENTURES OF MAX CREED is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, human trafficking and missing persons. The premise is dark, dramatic and gritty; the characters are determined, desperate and dynamic.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Over the years, Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.

Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.