He built the world's most powerful intelligence system-then it started looking back. Wade Anderson was born a genius-and orphaned twice. Raised by brilliant adoptive parents after the mysterious death of his birth family, Wade's world shatters again when tragedy strikes. The official reports call it an accident. Wade knows better. Armed with his creation, the Auto-Regenerating Intelligence System-code-named ARI-he begins uncovering truths powerful people would kill to keep buried. Every secret he unearths drags him deeper into a web of espionage, betrayal, and silent wars fought in data, not bullets. Now a billionaire inventor with an empire that could change the world, Wade faces his greatest question: Can one man wield unlimited technology-and still keep his humanity?