Adrian Veyne is the world’s most celebrated private detective — brilliant, charming, and unstoppable. But by night, he becomes something else entirely: an elusive thief who engineers elaborate mysteries for others to solve, stealing treasures across the globe and hiding them in a bunker no one can trace. For fifteen years, he has lived this double life. Solving crimes by day, creating them by night. Loved by the public, chased by the law, haunted by a question he can no longer avoid: is he a hero pretending to be a villain, or a villain pretending to be good? Only one FBI agent, Ellie Kaine, begins to connect the dots. As they circle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse — allies by day, adversaries by night — Adrian is forced to choose. But the closer he gets to giving up his phantom life, the more perfectly the trap closes. When the world’s governments converge on him, and Ellie finally has the evidence she needs, the Phantom Detective’s fate hangs by a thread. And even a master escape artist can’t outrun the truth forever. A globe-trotting noir thriller packed with deception, action, and betrayal — The Phantom Detective launches an unforgettable new series.