The New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with the thirteenth pulse-pounding thriller in the “engaging and entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) Ali Reynolds series.After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey believes the case is finally closed. That is, until Stu discovers he’s been left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate … fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate attempt by Frigg, a rogue A.I. program created by the killer, to keep itself from being fully deactivated.
To take Frigg down for good, Stu enlists the help of Ali Reynolds and the rest of his cyber security colleagues at High Noon Enterprises. But they are not the only ones who know about Frigg’s existence.
Graciella Miramar, an unassuming accountant to all appearances, is actually the right-hand woman to El Pescado, the leader of a dangerous drug cartel. She’ll do anything to get her hands on that program. With Frigg’s help, Graciella hopes to take over El Pescado’s criminal underworld and become wealthy beyond her wildest dreams. But Stu—and El Pescado and his henchmen—may not be so easily defeated.
As the “grand master of the game” (The Providence Journal), J.A. Jance crafts another electrifying thriller that shows that everything has its price.
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A very interesting look into AI and what may be completely plausible in the future.
Not one of her best, but still enjoyable.
It held my interest from the first page. I could not put it down. Very realistic. A good, clean, enjoyable read.
J. A, Jance is a very accomplished author of many books of which I have read all of them. Ali Reynolds is the main character of this novel who is married to a owner of a computer investigation type company that solves problems and mysteries. A once close friend of Ali’s employees commits suicide and allegedly leaves him a small fortune. He needs the passwords to be able to get the money so he can pay the inheritance taxes. The deceased friend created a computer system named Frigg that is unbelievable in real life but is real in the plot. Mu ch ado comes after this and you need to read the book to find out.
This is not a review. Isn’t Ali Reynolds a female? The book description uses the term “his,” which indicates that the writer of the blurb did not know the character.