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Automated Informant
Paperback
Publisher: William Sauro
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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