Thriller
Date Published: September 29, 2025
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.
“In this third installment of the series, Nick Crane and his freedom
fighters continue their battle against a group of so-called ‘super
patriots’ known as The Principals. A story for our times, the book
resonates in today’s political climate. Moore entertains with his clever
prose, while giving us something to think about. A great addition to an
excellent set of thrillers.” —Joel W. Barrows, bestselling author
of the Deep Cover series
“L.A. PI Nick Crane is back, along with his partner, FBI Special Agent
Carrie North, in Giant Steps, the final installment of their three-volume
battle against the forces of evil, personified by the despicable Marguerite
Ferguson and her lethal band of ‘super patriots’. Patrick H.
Moore’s prose is electric, pulsing with rat-a-tat jack-hammer energy,
that spits out words like bullets. Warning: hang on tight for the ride of your
life!” —Charles Salzberg, Shamus Award nominated author of Canary
in the Coal Mine and Second Story Man
“Giant Steps is the finale of Patrick H. Moore’s
Nick-Crane-versus-The-Principals trilogy. Everything readers have anticipated
about the dramatic final battle between Nick and Marguerite
Ferguson—with long-suffering FBI SA Carrie North caught in the
middle—comes to a thrilling head. Moore delivers, serving up a landscape
where only Nick Crane dares challenge the powers intent on destroying
America.” —Ken Funsten, CFA; Director, Sisters-in-Crime, L.A. and
author of What’s Really Unforgettable
“Spilling over with investigative authority, in Giant Steps Patrick H.
Moore weaves a modern PI thriller where freedom fighters and fake patriots
wreak havoc across the dark landscape of a desolate yet familiar America.
Moore writes with the addictive panache of Lee Child and Vince Flynn.”
—John Nardizzi, Shamus award finalist and author of Telegraph Hill and
The Burden of Innocence
The Full Nick Crane Thriller Series
27 Days
A Nick Crane Thriller, Book 1
Rogues & Patriots
A Nick Crane Thriller, Book 2
Giant Steps
A Nick Crane Thriller, Book 3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTR1WLMS
About the Author
PATRICK H. MOORE writes thrillers and crime novels. He is a retired Los
Angeles based investigator and sentencing mitigation specialist. Between 2003
and 2024, Patrick 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.
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.
In 2014, his first PI thriller, Cicero’s Dead, was indie published by US
iNdIe Books. In February of 2023, Down & Out Books published Patrick’s PI
political thriller, 27 Days, and followed that up with the publication of
Rogues and Patriots in April of 2024. Both Rogues & Patriots and 27 Days
were finalists in the General Thriller category of the American Fiction
Awards, and Rogues & Patriots was recently named a Judges’ Top Pick in the
Thriller category in this year’s Killer Nashville Silver Falchion awards.
Down & Out will be publishing Giant Steps, the third book in the
three-volume series in which LA PI Nick Crane fights The Principals, a violent
cabal of right-wing extremists, in September of 2025. Down & Out also
published Patrick’s recent novella Setting the Record Straight.
Contact Links
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TikTok —- @patrickhmoore
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