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Fiction and nonfiction about power, institutions, and the architecture of failure.
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American Drift
American Series · Book One
The republic was never overthrown. It was outgrown, once the people inside stopped believing the guardrails were mandatory.
American Rift
American Series · Book Two
The world's trust in America was a real asset, built across eighty years. This is the account of spending it.
American Grift
American Series · Book Three
Win at all costs, made literal and itemized: the price list, the pardons, the loyalty tests, the republic sold for parts.
American Gift
American Series · Book Four
The immigrants who built the country's power, wealth and knowledge are the proof the light is not out yet.
American Shift
American Series · Book Five
Three clocks run inside the republic at once. The gap between them is where the reckoning lands.
SPYder
Fiction
A burned out engineer, a family pub at the world's edge, and a machine that answers the person, not the prompt.
Hold the Square
A list of twenty two heirless fortunes. A patient killer. And the one dying man who stops being afraid.
With the Lights On
A text from a number that is not a number: we have the chats, and on Thursday you vote our way.
The First Sustainable Country on Earth
A dying billionaire who helped build the machine decides to give it all away, in time to end it.
Agents of Failure
Nonfiction
The best AI agents complete three office tasks in ten. This book is about the other seven.
Rich, Broke and SICK of It
The wealth is not absent. It is moving, upward, through arrangements most Americans use every day without knowing their names.
The Underdog Charge
Two tiny islands, same size, opposite fates. The difference was distance: how close deciders sit to who pays.
The Great American Plan
Nonfiction · In progress
A plan for the country that actually adds up.
