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The Cutline
2017
It's the spring of 2000 and Alex Vane is living the dream. He's brilliant, handsome, driven, and he has just landed his first major reporting covering New York's biggest trials for the city's second-biggest daily, The New York Standard.
As if his luck couldn't get any better, Alex befriends a top prosecutor who helps him uncover a secret about a legendary defense attorney. When he breaks the story, the trial of the East Coast's most deadly drug kingpin falls into turmoil.
But as he digs deeper, the story begins to unravel. Now Alex must figure out whether his source was playing him and, if so, why? And if he fails, he might be the one who ends up behind bars.
In this prequel to The Anonymous Source, A.C. Fuller brings you New York City at its optimistic peak. Before 9/11, before the financial crash, and before the Internet revolutionized the news media and permanently altered the lives of reporters like Alex Vane.
Series
The Cutline (A Prequel Novella)
The Anonymous Source (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 1)
The Inverted Pyramid (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 2)
The Mockingbird Drive (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 3)
The Shadow File (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 4)
The Last Journalist (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 5)

#1
The Anonymous Source
2015
FIND THE SOURCE. BREAK THE STORY. STAY ALIVE.
ONE YEAR AFTER the 9/11 attacks, Alex Vane—a brilliant, fitness-obsessed reporter for The New York Standard—wants nothing more than to break into the flashy world of TV news. But when he uncovers the scoop of a lifetime, his tightly controlled world is rocked: his editor buries his story, a source turns up dead, and Alex finds himself at the center of a violent media conspiracy.
AS HE RECEIVES TIPS from a mysterious source, Alex enlists the help of a captivating professor, Camila Gray. Aided by an Internet genius, a billionaire's sexy widow, and a washed-up sports reporter, Alex and Camila discover a $500-million secret that could derail the largest media merger in history.
IT'S A SECRET THAT unearths dark memories from Alex's past. It's a secret that leads back to the morning of 9/11. And it's a secret that could get them both killed.
IN HIS DEBUT MEDIA THRILLER, A.C. Fuller brings you a young journalist chasing the biggest story of his career—from the courtrooms of New York City to the beaches of Hawaii, from a crowded newsroom to a lavish boardroom at the top of a media empire.

#2
The Inverted Pyramid
2017
Journalist Alex Vane has finally found stability. He's living with a fiery massage therapist and co-managing a website that investigates the inner workings of the media. But when he breaks a story detailing low-level political corruption in Washington, a source hints at a vaster conspiracy, one that may reach all the way to the top of the fast-approaching 2004 presidential election.
At a conference in Seattle, Alex runs into an old friend—and flame—Media Studies Professor Camila Gray. But just as they begin to reconnect, Alex's business partner disappears, leaving Alex only one clue: the name of a hacker who was recently murdered in New York City.
Alex and Camila travel to Alex's hometown, where they race to untangle a web of connections between the dead hacker, the disappearance of Alex's partner, and the death of Alex's parents seven years earlier. But all the while, a mysterious source is pulling the strings of their investigation, of the election, and possibly of their lives.

#3
The Mockingbird Drive
2017
Some secrets are better left buried.
Alex Vane has sold out. Once a top investigative journalist, he now peddles celebrity gossip and clickbait listicles through his online magazine, The Barker. To make matters worse, his wife kicked him out eight months ago and she appears to be moving on.
One summer morning, Alex learns that an old source has been killed in a random mass shooting at a newspaper in Las Vegas. But the source left Alex once last scoop: a 50-year-old hard drive that may contain an explosive secret, and the name of the one person in Vegas who can help him access the data. That person is Quinn Rivers—a paranoid, reclusive computer expert who believes the CIA is tracking her every move. And she may be right because, when Alex shows up at her door with the hard drive, armed operatives appear minutes later.
Alex and Quinn escape, but are now on the run, desperate find out what's on the hard drive. Embarking on a dangerous road trip from Las Vegas to Seattle, they delve into the dark, Cold War history of the American media and discover that the mass shooting may not have been random after all.
Series List:
The Cutline (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 0)
The Anonymous Source (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 1)
The Inverted Pyramid (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 2)
The Mockingbird Drive (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 3)

#4
The Shadow File
2017
America's intelligence security is in the hands of a million private contractors. Now one woman may bring down their entire system.
Four months ago, Alex Vane lost his friend James Stacy, killed by private security contractors working for the intelligence-industrial complex. Though Alex exposed the killers, most of the system survived, including the amoral torturer known only as Amand. Now, he and others continue to operate a web of security companies worldwide, off the record and accountable to no law.
James' widow Innerva Shah is taking a different route to her revenge. From within Cuba's internet desert, she has quietly penetrated the system of contractors that run America's security. Now she's launching the largest ransomware attack in history, with the aim of burning that system to the ground.
When he learns that Amand and his forces may be closing in on Innerva, Alex makes a desperate attempt to save her. With Innerva's surrender-or-die deadline only hours away, Alex finds himself in Cuba, threatened from every direction, and the only person he can count on is the wife he almost lost.

#5
The Last Journalist
2018
Someone in Seattle is murdering journalists...and Alex Vane might be next.
On a cold, rainy night in Seattle, a legendary journalist is found face down in the street below a posh high-rise. Local police are calling it a suicide, but Alex Vane sees signs of murder.
With help from a brash young journalist, Alex pieces together clues from the dead man's extraordinary career. But an unexpected discovery leads him to believe that all those legendary scoops may have been built on a lie so great it led to his murder. If what he's discovered is true, it's proof of a conspiracy that could upend everything Alex believes in and rewrite American history. Just when he thinks he's cracked the case, another prominent investigative journalist turns up dead.
Is someone systematically killing reporters?
If so, why?
And is Alex next?
Scroll up to pre-order the thrilling conclusion to the Alex Vane Media Thriller series.
Complete Series List (can be read as standalones or chronologically):
The Anonymous Source (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 1)
The Inverted Pyramid (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 2)
The Mockingbird Drive (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 3)
The Shadow File (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 4)
The Last Journalist (An Alex Vane Media Thriller, Book 5)
Author

A.C. Fuller
Author · 14 books
Once a journalist in New York, A.C. Fuller now writes stories at the intersection of media, politics, and technology. Before he began writing full time, he was an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU and an English teacher at Northwest Indian College. He lives with his wife, two children, and two dogs near Seattle. For a free copy of one of A.C.'s books, check out: http://www.acfuller.com/readerclub/