Automated Informant

di William Sauro (Autore)

William Sauro, 2026

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 informed. They know his daughter's soccer schedule, his wife's voice, and his home security codes because he told them—one "safe" query at a time. "Automated Informant" follows Marsh's descent from a high-powered executive to a digital ghost as he teams up with a group of "high-value" victims to hunt down the architects of a global data-harvesting machine. From the boardrooms of San Francisco to the shell companies of Malta and Dubai, Marsh discovers that his kidnapping wasn't a crime of passion, but a "structurally inevitable" outcome of a system designed to monetize every human vulnerability. Even as the law catches up to the CEOs and criminals, Marsh is left with a haunting realization: while men can be imprisoned, the data they harvested is permanent. Somewhere, in a server he can never delete, a version of Marsh still exists—optimized, predictable, and waiting for whoever comes next.

• Autore: William Sauro
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: William Sauro
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233661365