The job gets done.
Someone always pays for it.
not always with money
Alexandre Sarraf is a loss adjuster for a Swiss reinsurer. He isn't sent to catch anyone. He's sent to work out what a death is going to cost, and who's going to pay it.
The claims arrive already closed: ruled accidental, filed, signed off. He reopens them anyway, because a real accident is wasteful. It fails in more ways than necessary. When a death has needed exactly enough failures and not one more, that isn't bad luck. That's a budget.
Start with The Standby
The series
Alexandre Sarraf investigates industrial deaths that have already been ruled accidental. Each book takes one site, one fatality, and one claim, and works out what actually happened to the person and what it will cost the people still standing.
The procedure is real. The permits, the alarms, the isolations, the paperwork that follows a death: all of it works on the page the way it works on a plant. The sites are invented. The cities are not.
- The StandbyFife, Scotland
- The PermitBotlek, Rotterdam
- The ArmingLiberty County, Texas
- UntitledJubail, Saudi Arabia
Nora Bexley
Nora Bexley is a pseudonym. Behind it is twenty-five years spent running crews in the hardest corners of the oil and gas industry, and a simple rule for what makes these books worth writing: not who did it, but what it costs and who decides.