The Titan's Debt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781036707835)

Beneath every origin story lies a version someone paid to bury.

Mirielle Laurant--brilliant financial researcher with a sixth sense for deception--knows the official tale of Kidemonas CyberSecurity: garage prodigies, genius code, global domination. Clean. Heroic. Sanitized. But then she spots the crack--a minor discrepancy that should've been nothing.

Still reeling from her husband's murder and armed with grief, razor instincts, and a deep distrust of clean narratives, Mirielle assembles a quiet task force: Harriet Godwin, a forensic-minded researcher with a vicious eye for data; Ivy Choate, a rookie reporter whose ambition outruns her access; and Joe Pulver, a retired CIA analyst who never really retired.

What begins as a financial anomaly spirals into something far darker--a decades-old crime, expertly buried and ruthlessly protected. And with Kidemonas on the brink of launching the world's first Artificial General Intelligence, the stakes shift from reputational ruin to global risk.

Mirielle isn't just chasing the truth. She's dodging surveillance, confronting ghosts, and betting everything on the one thing they never saw coming: her.

They built something too big to fail. She's about to prove them wrong.

The Titan's Debt is a gripping mystery-thriller where buried secrets, corrupt power, and the ominous rise of AI collide--crafted for readers who relish the tension of Baldacci and the depth of Larsson.

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Praise for Mirielle Laurant:

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A smashing tour de force of intrigue, deception, suspense, and compelling action. Masterful.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ H.N. Wake captures the fast-moving AI landscape with a timely novel about high-growth tech businesses, some with shady practices, which will likely impact us all.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Everything you want in a thriller: great, compelling characters; a rip-roaring plot; smart, baller heroine(s); and fresh, timely ideas. I did not put this one down.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The lead characters, as usual from H.N. Wake, have their own interesting backstories, and they keep the investigation moving along.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Mirielle Laurent, head of Ravaler Research, brings together a number of different complex characters that mesh together to right the wrongs of the principals of a tech company working on a new AI system. An excellent read.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you like complex plots, The Titan's Debt has it in spades. Mirielle Laurent is the widow of an FBI agent; her mission in this story is to shut down a tech company that she believes is unethical. She recruits a team of diverse, highly qualified colleagues to research with the intent to take down a financial giant. Mirielle Laurent is good at what she does--very, very good. The Titan's Debt will keep you riveted to each page until the very end.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I really enjoyed this first book in the new series and am already looking forward to the next one.