Silicon Smuggling

A routine drug bust. Twelve processors. A cover-up that moves before the sun goes down.

DEA Agent Isaac Reyes expected to find narcotics in the Arizona desert. Instead, he found classified AI technology - quantum neural processors designed to predict and shape human behavior at scale. Components that weren't supposed to exist outside a secured facility. Components powerful enough to cross the threshold between forecasting what people will do and controlling what they choose.

Within hours, the evidence vanished. His team was scattered. His career was over.

Now off the grid and hunted, Reyes follows the processors back to their source.

Through cartel tunnels and secured compounds, he uncovers a shadow network linking a tech empire, a cartel that traded narcotics for computational power, and a classified project built on one premise: that humanity's future requires a guiding hand - whether humanity consents or not.

To stop what's coming, Reyes assembles an unlikely team. But the closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell who's predicting whom.

Silicon Smuggling is the first novel in the Isaac Reyes Trilogy - a techno-thriller for readers of Daniel Suarez, Don Winslow, and Michael Crichton.