Title: The Offshore Account prompted by Michael Poole

Premise:
A young tax lawyer stumbles onto a massive offshore laundering scheme while handling a routine inheritance case. What begins as boring paperwork spirals into a deadly chase involving billionaires, corrupt governments, and killers who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.

Plot Structure:

The Setup

Protagonist: Rachel Meyer, 32, brilliant but undervalued tax attorney at a mid-size firm in Washington, D.C.

She’s assigned to settle the estate of a reclusive billionaire who died suddenly in the Caribbean. It looks routine—until she notices odd offshore trusts and shell companies no one can explain.

The Discovery

Digging deeper, Rachel realizes the billionaire was a front man for a global money-laundering network tied to politicians, arms dealers, and multinational corporations.

Buried in the paperwork is a set of codes that could unlock accounts worth billions—and implicate powerful figures.

The Pressure

Rachel’s firm abruptly tells her to drop the case. Her boss warns her to walk away, clearly terrified.

Soon, she’s followed, her phone is tapped, and one of her paralegals vanishes after helping her research.

The Allies

Rachel teams up with a disillusioned IRS investigator and a tech-savvy whistleblower who once worked for the billionaire.

Together, they trace the offshore accounts through Panama, Switzerland, and Dubai, uncovering connections to U.S. senators and defense contractors.

The Climax

As assassins close in, Rachel leaks part of the information to a major newspaper—triggering a scandal that rocks Washington.

But the real proof is still in her hands: a hard drive with enough detail to dismantle the network, if she can survive long enough to hand it over.

The Aftermath

A few mid-level players are prosecuted, but most of the powerful remain untouchable.

Rachel is offered witness protection but refuses—choosing instead to start her own practice, dedicated to exposing financial corruption.

The final chapter ends with her receiving an anonymous package: another set of documents, another case, even bigger than the last.