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Title: Attorney-Author Gary Reed Releases FLOWBACK, a Legal Thriller That Moves the Suspense Out of the Courtroom and Into the Investigation

 Buffalo, United States, 15th Oct 2026 - Retired attorney Gary Reed, who brings decades of experience in corporate investigations to his fiction, releases Flowback, a corporate legal thriller that trades the genre’s courtroom for the borrowed conference room where the real suspense lives.A front-page story claims somebody bought an Ohio regulator’s signature on a water discharge permit for a proposed petrochemical complex in Ohio’s Appalachian southeast. A community outreach coordinator survives a violent attack after speaking out against the same project. Rheinstadt Industrial Group, the Cincinnati-based engineering and construction firm hired to design and build it, says it had nothing to do with either. Its CEO and board hire David Dunkirk, an outside attorney who runs independent investigations for companies that need to know what their own employees have done. They ask him to take on both allegations.The Investigation Is the StoryFlowback is solidly in the legal thriller space, but it differs in one key way: the plot revolves around an independent investigation. When a company faces allegations that could destroy it, the board brings in an outside attorney who doesn’t report to management and can’t be fired by the people being looked at. That attorney and a small team spend weeks doing unglamorous work: interviewing employees who’d rather not talk, reading expense reports line by line, and pulling weeks of email that turn out to contain buried code words.Dunkirk works out of a borrowed conference room with his team, among them associate Nicole Drake Turner and paralegal Chika Okonkwo. The chief operating officer wants the investigation shut down. The board wants a report at its next meeting. The FBI is already working the assault in parallel. And every thread...

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