📚 NOW AVAILABLE — THE ANCHOR FILE
Neil Hammer's Final Planned Case
Former FBI agent Neil Hammer was supposed to be on vacation.
At sixty-two, Hammer has retired to North Carolina's Outer Banks, determined to leave his investigative career behind. Then a nearly drowned woman washes ashore. Her first words change everything:
“Don't let them take me back.”
What begins as a rescue becomes an investigation into a secret intelligence operation that makes people disappear—not by killing them, but by converting them into financial assets hidden inside private environmental trusts.
The victims aren't missing. They're legally gone.
Following the evidence will force Hammer to confront a system where crimes are concealed in accounting records, identities can be erased, and powerful people have everything to lose if the truth comes out.
They thought he was dead and forgotten. They were off by one file.
The Anchor File is a suspense thriller about buried secrets, corporate power, and one retired investigator who refuses to walk away.
A Neil Hammer Novel by Anthony Mays
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Anthony Mays is the author of the Neil Hammer novels including:
Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas still Missing
Operation Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Palm Court Motel
The Fourth Key
Operation Cornered
Three Guardians of the Temple
Fast-paced thrillers.
Layered mysteries.
Justice comes at a cost.
Whether you’re drawn to high-stakes FBI investigations, reflective road-trip fiction, or eerie stories for younger readers, you’ll find a story that won’t let go. But at the heart of these thrillers is one investigator who sees the world differently.
Who is Neil Hammer?
Neil Hammer investigates crimes others can’t solve. Where most investigators see coincidence, Hammer sees patterns—numbers, signals, and structures hidden beneath chaos. Each case unfolds through a series of warnings he calls presagements—and if you miss the presagements, you may never see what’s coming.
Patterns always meant someone was counting.
Get the prequel story: Before the Presagements
Discover the moment Neil Hammer first recognizes the pattern that will shape his career.
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