MANUFACTURED

Case Files from a Blackmail Fixer

MANUFACTURED is a short true-crime novella — a single case file.

Written by Frank M. Ahearn, a longtime blackmail intervention specialist and author of the New York Times bestseller How to Disappear, this novella documents one blackmail situation exactly as it unfolded — from the first inconsistencies to the moment the pressure quietly collapsed.

There are no dramatic confrontations.
No chases.
No heroic rescues.

What unfolds instead is a slow reveal: how a believable narrative takes hold, how authority reinforces the wrong assumptions, and how money begins to move based on belief rather than proof.

What initially appears to be a straightforward blackmail case is something else entirely — a manufactured crisis designed to control behavior, redirect suspicion, and keep a more dangerous truth hidden.

This is not a how-to guide.
It is not a memoir.
It is not a thriller.

It is a procedural account of how blackmail actually works in the real world — how urgency is constructed, how leverage is implied rather than stated, and how people make irreversible decisions when exposure feels imminent.

The resolution does not come through force or negotiation, but through structure: recognizing what belongs, what does not, and what happens when a false narrative is no longer fed.

Each book in the Case Files series stands alone.
Together, they form an archive of real blackmail cases, presented without embellishment or moral commentary.

If you enjoy short, unsettling true-crime reads — cases that unfold quietly and end without spectacle — this file is open.