Dark Twisted: The Janitor's Gambit

By David Chevis

DARK TWISTED - BOOK ONE

The Janitor's Gambit
Book 1 of 5 in the Dark Twisted Series

Series Tone & Identity

Cinematic black-ops thriller

Dark humour

Brutal but clever improvisation

Cat-and-mouse espionage

Fraser "The Fixer" McLeod quietly becoming the most dangerous ghost in London's underworld

SERIES CORE FOUNDATION
MAIN CHARACTER
Fraser "The Fixer" McLeod

53-57 across the series.

Ex-CIA Special Activities Division (SAD).

Officially "dead."

Lives anonymously as a janitor/caretaker in a massive London industrial hub.

Hyper-competent, bored, sarcastic, darkly funny, frighteningly resourceful.

Uses improvised weapons and janitorial equipment in lethal, creative ways.

SERIES THEMES

Invisibility is power.
Fraser thrives by being overlooked.

Bureaucracy is deadlier than bullets.
Corporate espionage is as violent as any battlefield.

Criminal ecosystems evolve like wildlife.
The underworld adapts to Fraser - often violently.

Identity isn't fixed. It fractures.
Fraser has many aliases - and each grows more independent.

You can disappear from the world... but not your past.
CIA threads weave back into Fraser's life across all 5 books.

SIGNATURE TONE

Dark humour

Lean, sharp prose

Brutal improvisational violence

Intelligence tradecraft

Inter-gang warfare

Moral ambiguity

Cinematic tension

If John Wick met Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a dose of Fargo-style absurdity - that's DARK TWISTED.

Not a hero. Not a villain. A ghost navigating the shadows.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4TPL9KP
• ISBN13: 9798275287240
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"