Sam Rourke.
A former soldier with a worn rosary, a fading faith, and no patience for convenient answers. Rourke trusts evidence, even when the truth points towards people the city has learned not to question.
A Sam Rourke thriller · Book One
Harbinger
The Prophet's Game
Three victims. Three methods. One black feather.
- Author
- Steven Harrison
- Publication
- 1 September 2026
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- Sam Rourke · Book One
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01 / The case
Chicago's powerful have stayed beyond consequence. Someone has decided that ends now.
Chicago's wealthiest citizens are being murdered and displayed for the city to see. The press has already given their killer a name: the Harbinger, a self-appointed judge targeting people whose money and influence have kept them beyond consequence.
Detective Sam Rourke has no interest in the mythology. Military-trained and carrying the weight of an old war, a fading faith, and a father disappearing into dementia, he believes evidence will eventually tell the truth if he is patient enough to find it.
Disgraced investigative reporter Miles Carter receives a message from the killer. For Miles, it is a chance to reclaim the career and the name he lost. For Rourke, it is evidence being shaped by a man desperate to write himself into the story.
As the investigation reaches into law firms, fraudulent developments, and the hidden machinery of Chicago politics, Rourke must separate justice from vengeance, truth from narrative, and the corrupt from the protected.
Harbinger: The Prophet's Game is the first Sam Rourke thriller: a dark, character-driven crime novel about murder, corruption, loyalty, and the cost of refusing to look away.
The Harbinger is not only killing Chicago's powerful. He is showing the city its hidden rot.
Miles Carter.
Disgraced, ambitious, and directly contacted by the killer. Miles sees a route back to the career and the name he lost, but every story has an author and the Harbinger is determined to control the narrative.
Chicago.
Law firms, political influence, protected wealth, and rain-soaked streets. A city where respectable institutions keep their own version of the truth and power has become practiced at avoiding consequence.
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