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Summer 2048. The world's top athletes are jostling for the final places at the Olympics while ruthless cybercriminals are plotting to disrupt the games.

Jack Sladen, tech billionaire and local hero, is coming back to his roots. Cameron Silvera, busy fighting a new cybercrime threat, doesn’t trust him. Is he out to save the world, or to destroy it?

Northeast England, 2046. Daniel is scavenging for treasures in an old landfill. His cousin Michelle is making ends meet with a little coding here, a little hacking there. When a nuclear explosion sends shockwaves around the world, Cameron Silvera, a.k.a. the SimCavalier, knows exactly who’s behind it. The Argentum Associates team mobilizes to secure nuclear facilities. Daniel, helped by Michelle’s creative hacking, starts working with them when he lands a job at his local power station. Stakes rise when a body is found floating out to sea, silenced by the cybercrime syndicate.

London, 2045. Cameron Silvera, a.k.a. the SimCavalier, is a hacker legend in the cybersecurity world. In real life, Cameron leads the Argentum Associates white hat infosec team, known to world governments and global conglomerates for their ability to bring hacked systems back online fast. It’s fun work, and Cameron is at the top of her game. When the City of London Bank calls in the Argentum team, it feels like just another routine job. The Speakeasy Worm has threaded its way into critical systems across the world. Cameron cracks the code easily, but there's trouble ahead.

The SimCavalier, aka Cameron Silvera, wants to enjoy her romantic getaway with Ben, but clues to a Paris data theft are coming thick and fast. Her team has its hands full dealing with an escalating torrent of online attacks, and the fallout from a global data breach has hit their clients hard. Cameron starts to connect the dots as underground markets are flooded with stolen files. But the cybercriminals are ahead of them, hunting down the SimCavalier who has thwarted their plans once too often.

The City of London Bank calls in Cameron and the Argentum infosec team when the Speakeasy Worm, a global threat, shuts them down. The white hats crack the code easily, but as they dig into the virus, they discover a hidden message addressed to the SimCavalier. A hurricane of cyberattacks is on the way, and a global crime syndicate is taunting its most dangerous adversary. Cameron’s only protection is anonymity, but a journalist who has been following the SimCavalier for months goes public with the story. The SimCavalier’s identity is compromised, and Cameron’s in danger.

Lucifer Mandrake, Arcanist to the court of St James, by appointment of Queen Victoria Saxe-Coburg, is not having his best day. Someone has been resurrecting dead peers of the realm. The House of Lords is now inhabited by the undead. Sooner or later, someone is bound to notice. Well probably. Is this just a plot to derail The Witchcraft Bill? Or is it something more insidious, such as a plan to remove Victoria as head of state and replace her with the King of Hanover?

In a world where machines can decide who lives and who dies, humanity is the enemy. Do you believe the simulations or the evidence of your own eyes? A young skipper averts disaster, and the SimCavalier, searching for a lost friend, digs deep into the world of quantum processing where probabilities diverge from realities. Thrill-seeking gamblers are betting on everything from tropical storms to the unrelenting and bloody advance of the Militia who are driving east from the Rockies and across what’s left of the United States.

Hacker legend Cameron Silvera–the SimCavalier–has never trusted tech billionaire Jack Sladen. When she uncovers a connection between his new Foundation, a dangerous cybercrime syndicate, and a rogue AI locked away in a high-security prison, Cameron and Jack are drawn into an uneasy alliance. They have the skills to take down their foe, but can they destroy her in time?

Finch is a young avian on a mission to see the galaxy. There's plenty of danger out there on strange planets and in pirate-infested shipping lanes. Granny's old guide book from her travels a century earlier may be helpful - or could it lead Finch into mortal peril?