Far below a street in Rio, a building’s foundation collapses. In China, an apartment block caves in. The deadly accidents aren’t much more than passing headlines for Paul Hewitt, a Wall Street broker carving a career out of million-dollar deals.
But business suddenly gets personal when a Manhattan subway tunnel collapses. Paul uncovers disturbing connections between the accidents, but the deeper he digs, the more the official explanations just don’t add up.
His search leads to a shocking discovery: millions of tons of glass and steel are sitting on an environmental time bomb.
Faced by a conspiracy of silence he races against time to expose the truth while the power brokers will resort to anything—including murder—to protect their interests.
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Sure, AI Might Destroy Us. But Not the Way You Expect
Everybody loves a rogue computer. From books to movies, we devour stories like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ex Machina. It’s exciting to imagine those sci-fi futures, especially when we know that a computer doesn’t actually stand much chance of destroying humanity. But...
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Data breaches are a lot like worms in a rainstorm. If you don’t see one now, just wait five minutes and another is bound to pop up. It makes perfect sense, then, that we try to protect personal data like birthdates and credit cards. But what doesn’t make sense is that...
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