FBI, CIA, NSA, Foreign Governments—and now an international thief and conman with seemingly unlimited reach. Reed Harltan has plans for Alex Kayne. With one of Alex's clients under his thumb, Harltan may just have managed to pull off something even the powerful US alphabet agencies couldn't do—put her on a leash, and use her powerful AI software to do his bidding. Harltan wants Alex to break into the Boston Literary Archives and retrieve a rare manuscript, protected by a next-level security system that utilizes an artificial intelligence of its own. Can even QuiEK crack the most sophisticated security on the planet? And if Alex pulls this off, will she be Harltan's tool for good? The clock is ticking, and Alex Kayne only has one week to find a way out, or her client dies.