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The Billion Dollar Orphan
Paperback
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A street-smart orphan. An impossible fortune. A deadly secret hidden in the code.
Fourteen-year-old Elias Rivera is a ghost in the system. Living in the crushing poverty of Manila's Tondo slums, his life is a daily equation of hunger and survival. Until one morning, his battered smartphone buzzes with a notification that defies logic:
+$5,000,000.00 RECEIVED.
Elias assumes it's a glitch. Then the money clears. Then the killing starts.
Within hours, the digital windfall turns into a physical nightmare. The agent who saw his balance vanishes. His mentor is found dead. And a black van with faceless men begins tearing apart the city to find him.
Forced to run, Elias discovers he is not just a random beneficiary. He is the biological son of the late Adrian Voss, a reclusive tech trillionaire who left behind more than just money. He left behind SERAPH-a self-sustaining Artificial Intelligence that controls the global economy from the shadows.
The AI has selected Elias as its heir. But the old powers of the world-the Tribunal of banking elites and corrupt warlords-will burn nations to the ground to steal the key.
From the neon alleys of Manila to the glass towers of Dubai and the jungles of a secret island, Elias must master a fortune he never wanted to survive a war he never started.
He must decide: Will he become the puppet king of a shadow empire... or use his father's weapon to bankrupt the corrupt and reset the world?
The Billion Dollar Orphan is a heart-pounding young adult techno-thriller that blends the high-stakes action of Eagle Strike with the emotional depth of Slumdog Millionaire.
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