MY REVIEW
I read Nicholas Gretener’s first book and debut novel in the LawForce series, Bending The Arc, and loved the idea of a legal team standing up for the little guy, so I was eager to see where he would take The Cyber Sanction, the second book in the series.
Law Force is a team of elite lawyers with the full backing of the United States government.
“They don’t take passengers; they take fighters.”
“…I wasn’t blindsided because I was careless-I was attacked because I was a threat.”
I think a lot of our future wars will be held in the cyber world. The world we live in is small. Taking down one country’s financial system can have a domino affect that could spread all over the world.
We’ll travel from Zurich to Washington to Switzerland to China and back again.
Listen to that voice in your head. Knock, knock, intuition calling.
Nicholas Gretener writes novels that are easy to follow, though they deal with the law, banking, and other complicated institutions. Sometimes books are over my head, not so with Nicholas’ novels. He writes in a way that makes everything easy to follow. I will warn you, though, the tension, suspense and pacing can keep you flipping pages, unable to stop reading. There’s danger and betrayal. The scenario reads like a true crime novel. Could this be our future?
My thanks go out to Nicholas Gretener and Qualitas Publishing.
GOODREADS BLURB
“Sunshine is the best disinfectant.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
A legal thriller at the confluence of law, banking, and cybercrime.
In a world where power no longer lies in armies or arsenals, but in algorithms and access, the next great war will be fought across digital frontiers.
When BostonFirst Bank implodes in a mysterious cyberattack, the financial aftershocks threaten to upend the global economy. The evidence leads to Helvex Financial, a Swiss banking giant—yet deeper still to Zhonghua Capital, a covert Chinese state holding company intent on reshaping the world’s financial order.
Enter LawForce, a task force of elite lawyers with full U.S. governmental support created to defend justice where traditional systems fail. At its helm stands Steve Shane, a lawyer driven by conscience, and Jonathan Hendrix, the U.S. Attorney General, whose vision for LawForce blurs the line between legality and warfare.
From Zurich war rooms to Washington boardrooms, from the shadowed servers of Helvex Financial to the mountain passes of Switzerland, The Cyber Sanction hurtles toward a reckoning where truth, technology, and justice collide.
Blending the tension of a legal thriller with the precision of a geopolitical espionage novel, The Cyber Sanction is a searing exploration of digital warfare, accountability, and the moral cost of justice in an interconnected cyber world.
The Cyber Sanction—where justice goes global, and every byte can kill.
- Genre: Fiction, Legal, Suspense, Thriller
- 406 pages, Kindle Edition
- Published December 4, 2025 by Qualitas Publishing
- Series: A LawForce Novel #2
ABOUT NICHOLAS GRETENER
Nick is a retired lawyer and engineer, based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He splits his time between Calgary, Canada; Wengen, Switzerland; and Maui, USA.
He can usually be found writing on a laptop somewhere, skiing down a piste, hiking up a mountain, or rafting down a river in canyon country.
He is convinced that if people read more, the world would be a better place. It doesn’t always have to be heavy. Read something that will stretch your mind, then enjoy a beach read. Rinse and repeat.
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