Automated Informant

Marsh Winters is a man of the future. As a director of operations for a major hotel group, he has traded the slow friction of traditional management for the frictionless speed of AI-Chat, an elite assistant that manages his schedule, his finances, and even his family's safety. But in the hyper-efficient world of the Financial District, convenience is a trap.

When Marsh is violently abducted and held for a $95 million Bitcoin ransom, he realizes the kidnappers aren't just lucky-they are infor...