Giant Steps
by Patrick H. Moore
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Release Date: September 29, 2025
ISBN#: 9781643964171
Genre: Thriller
One last mission…
One final stand…
The fate of freedom hangs in the balance…
Get ready for a heart-pounding ride through the dark underbelly of America in Patrick H. Moore’s latest Nick Crane thriller, Giant Steps.
As the third and final installment in Moore’s gripping Nick Crane versus The Principals trilogy, Giant Steps finds veteran LA PI Nick Crane locked in a life-or-death struggle with the ruthless Marguerite Ferguson and her cabal of aristocratic “super patriots.”
Nine years after he and his team liquidated Frank Constantine, a murderous military shrink and close personal friend of Marguerite Ferguson and The Principals, Nick Crane is hiding out on the edge of the Mojave Desert. He has been fighting for his life for a year now, barely escaping Marguerite’s vendetta at every turn. Now, he and FBI Special Agent Carrie North decide the time has come to turns the tables. They decide infiltrate to the very heart of Marguerite’s evil empire. Crane summons his crew of crackerjack operatives and together they devise a diabolically clever sting operation designed to bring Marguerite to her knees once and for all.
Set largely in current-day Southern California, Crane and his team of freedom fighters represent all common, decent Americans who truly believe in “liberty and justice for all.” Blessed with dry wit and unimpeachable courage, Crane and his crew embark on a relentless quest for truth in the face of corruption and betrayal, even as they fight for their life and freedom in a landscape where only the brave dare to challenge the powers striving to destroy America.
Packed with engaging characters, relentless action, and razor-sharp dialogue, Giant Steps is a scintillating sequel that builds on the momentum of its predecessors, Rogues & Patriots and 27 Days.
Are you ready to join the fight? Get your copy today and step into the shadows, face the danger, and take Giant Steps with Nick Crane.
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About the Author
PATRICK H. MOORE writes thrillers and crime novels. He is a Los Angeles based investigator and sentencing mitigation specialist. Since 2003, he has worked on over five hundred drug trafficking, sex crime, violent crime, and white-collar fraud cases.
Patrick studied English Literature and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. While in college, he published numerous short stories and novel excerpts. More recently, in 2014, his first thriller, Cicero’s Dead, was indie published by US iNdIe Books. It was a finalist in the thriller category in the Beverly Hills Book Award Contest. In 2023, Down & Out Books published Patrick’s PI political thriller, 27 Days. 27 Days was just named a Finalist in the General Fiction category of the 2023 American Fiction Awards! They will be publishing the follow-up, Rogues and Patriots, in April of 2024. Rogues and Patriots is the second book in a three-volume series in which LA PI Nick Crane fights the Principals, a violent cabal of right-wing extremists. Down and Out also published Patrick’s recent novella Setting the Record Straight.
Patrick was one of the founders of All Things Crime Blog, which, in its heyday (2014 to 2017), was one of the most popular crime blogs in America.
