Firewall

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Pub Date 23 Feb 2021 | Archive Date 16 Feb 2021

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Description

When a scientist at the world’s top AI company is murdered, a covert CIA operative must recruit a former love interest to help uncover the killer.

Nations and corporations alike are racing to dominate the world’s artificial intelligence industry...by whatever means necessary.

With its genius CEO and breakthrough technology, the Silicon Valley-based Pax AI Corporation is one of the hottest companies in the sector. But when one of their top scientists is murdered at a prestigious tech conference, company executives and foreign spies are all on the suspect list.

In the aftermath of the killing, CIA officer Colt McShane has been assigned to a joint counterintelligence unit based in San Francisco. The unit’s leadership believes that an international espionage ring has been stealing classified technology from Pax AI.

Now they want Colt to use his past relationship with Pax AI executive Ava Klein to penetrate the company’s inner circle, and uncover the mole.

But as Colt learns more about Pax AI’s classified programs, he discovers just how powerful—and dangerous—their new technology can be. As the struggle for AI dominance grows ever more competitive, the factions vying for power are becoming desperate to achieve victory.

In the fight for absolute power, there can be only one winner. Each side has their own spies and secrets.

Whose side will win? And what secrets will they reveal?

With FIREWALL, USA Today bestselling author Andrew Watts brings you a fast-paced, cerebral mystery that's part spy novel, part technothriller, and sure to keep you guessing every step of the way.

When a scientist at the world’s top AI company is murdered, a covert CIA operative must recruit a former love interest to help uncover the killer.

Nations and corporations alike are racing to dominate...


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It was a bit of a slow start for me as it is not my normal genre of reading, but once the story took off I couldn’t put it down. – Colt McShane (CIA) is assigned to “Pax AI” a leader in the AI technology, to investigate which world espionage group is stealing Pax AI technology, all under the cover of his normal cover of working for a large investment firm. The AI technology is powerful and dangerous in the wrong hands, after a while I started looking at my phone and computer with a bit of distrust .. just saying 😊
Murder, spies, conspiracy theories, computer technology, working together or not, will computers aka AI rule … I highly recommend Firewall.
Thank you to Netgalley and Severn River Publishing

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Wow, what an interesting and fascinating book. This is the first book in a new series about the CIA officer Colt McShane. The book is part technothriller part spy novel and the story is about the race to dominate the world's AI industry. The Americans, the Chinese, the Russians and the Israelis are all involved in the power play and in the middle of all this is our protagonist Colt McShane. It's a fast-paced, chilling and thrilling story that kept me on edge until the very last page. I hope there will be more books in this series and I really recommend this book.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and Severn River Publisher for the opportunity to read this book and share my honest opinion.

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