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Book Spotlight: Shifta by Miles Joyner

Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring Miles Joyner for his latest release, Shifta.

Book: Shifta
Author: Miles Joyner
Series: Bazaar Series (Book 2)
Publication Date: 09/21/2026
Pages: 271 pages
Publisher: World Castle
Genre: Crime, Technothriller
Available in: All digital formats, paperback, hardcover, audiobook
For readers who enjoyed: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby, and the Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy. 

About the Book

An act of domestic terrorism during a cultural parade in downtown D.C. inflicts multiple casualties, including the life of a young Congressman, and law enforcement agencies are quick to conclude it was carried out by a mentally ill lone wolf manipulated by a chatbot.

Executive protection specialist Yemi Uzunma survives the attack and suspects it may be connected to an online prediction market widely thought to have been shut down called the Bazaar. He launches his own investigation into a mysterious, ideologically motivated assassination broker not only for the safety of his CEO sister’s clientele at Raptor Security but also for the preservation of order in a region facing a sudden spike in violence directed toward the power elite who call it home.

Shifta is the second book in the Bazaar series of novels that follows the security contractor Raptor as it deals with the ramifications the prediction market has on the political celebrities of the capital region.

You can find Shifta here
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About the Author

Miles Joyner

Miles is a fiction writer who works in D.C. as a video editor. He has had an obsession with the effects technology has on society since being raised by a father who was a computer programmer and a mother in workforce development He still pursues filmmaking in between books and finds that writing in the technothriller genre only enhances that passion even more. Miles is an active member of International Thriller Writers where his first book, Bazaar, was selected for their Debut Authors Program.

You can find author Joyner here:
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