The Tournament

Frank Youngsmith lives a simple nine-to-five life as an insurance adjuster right alongside it, none the wiser. Day after day, he slogs through the same routine. Until the day he gets handed a case that pulls him into the underground world of political conspiracy, intrigue, and blood sport, known only as "the Tournament". Frank’s discovery quickly becomes a global phenomenon; a dangerous game that means the world to legions of fans worldwide and is life or death to the handful of players that can compete.

Frank Youngsmith lives a simple nine-to-five life as an insurance adjuster. Day after day, he slogs through the same routine. Until the day he gets handed a case that pulls him into an underground world of political conspiracy, intrigue, and blood sport known only as the tournament. 

Things have gone awry in the tournament. A killer is on the loose among the players. The world is waking up to what the tournament really is, and what was once a secret competition is fast becoming a global obsession. But no winner can be declared until the mystery of what happened to one of the world's most powerful teams is solved.

Mazaryk gathers influence as the steward of the Black House, working behind the scenes to create a global mafia of the world’s most powerful tournament teams. His goal: to mold the tournament into the strongarm he believes it was created to be. Frank Youngsmith and Allen Lockton know the only way to beat a man like Mazaryk is with information. They race against time to provide Ellie Willmore and Team Blue with an edge - insights into the inner workings of the most dangerous man in the game.

It's been 10 years since the Battle of the Black House. The tournament is an institution now - with dozens of teams, hundreds of players, and millions of fans worldwide. Every year more teams are added to this global gunfight, and every year the original eight teams get older and a step slower. Ellie Willmore and Team Blue wonder if each passing tournament might be their last. What they don't know is that this time, someone plans to make sure of it.