Firewall Spies

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 Pax AI's 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. Everyone involved has their own spies and secrets. Whose spy will win? And what secrets will they reveal?

When a techno-terrorist group threatens to break encryptions on a global scale, a CIA officer must take matters into his own hands to save a world held hostage. A massive security breach in China. CIA operations compromised in Turkey. Undercover ops breaking down the world over. A techno-terrorist group dubbed "Archon" has unleashed a terrifying new technology that can break any encryption. Humanity's secrets are about to be laid bare, and global order tilts toward chaos. Up against a doomsday clock, CIA officer Colt McShane hatches a desperate plan: infiltrate Archon, capture one of the terrorist group's leaders, and force them to divulge the kill switch. But when Colt arrives just in time to see his target assassinated, he realizes that the stakes have been raised. Someone else is killing the terrorists and targeting their technology. And the question is: are they friends, or a new, and even more dangerous, enemy? Aided by the beautiful and mysterious Ava Klein, an operator in a covert organization known only as Trinity, Colt must stay one step ahead of all who want him dead: international terrorists, government agents, police. Even those he once called friends can no longer be trusted. Because in a world where power is built on a foundation of secrets, unlimited truth is the most destructive force of all... USA Today Bestselling author Andrew Watts teams up with Dale M. Nelson to bring you another chapter in “The Firewall Spies,” a technothriller series that mixes the political espionage of Jason Matthews with the thrills and adventure of Mark Greaney.