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[[folder: The Data Riot]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 is destroyed but so is humanity's transhumanist dreams. 80,000 people are dead and the Nameless AI is DrivenToSuicide. Maddox, Beatrice, and the Kid all get a happy ending, though.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 is revealed to have no backups and is completely deleted.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Nameless AI shuts itself down after defeating Latour Fisher A7.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 surprisingly. Upon realizing he's doomed, he calmly faces it and states that he regrets nothing.]]
* GrandFinale: [[spoiler: The series ends here with Maddox deciding to get out of the datajack business for good.]]
* HeelRealization: Maddox realizes that his assumptions about the Nameless AI were completely incorrect.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Maddox clings to his belief the Nameless AI is evil to horrifying conclusions.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 killed all other rogue AI because it couldn't stand them disagreeing with him. He also refuses to self-replicate.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Lora is killed with the rest of the 'Nettes by Latour Fisher A7.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Maddox after [[spoiler: he gets all of the 'Nettes killed in a single attack by Latour Fisher A7.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: We get it confirmed that Latour Fisher A7 truly despises humanity and believes only by annihilating it can he be safe.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler: Kipling and Maddox successfully trap the Nameless AI and get at least 80,000 people killed.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 is destroyed but so is humanity's transhumanist dreams. 80,000 people are dead and the Nameless AI is DrivenToSuicide. Maddox, Beatrice, and the Kid all get a happy ending, though.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 is revealed to have no backups and is completely deleted.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Nameless AI shuts itself down after defeating Latour Fisher A7.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 surprisingly. Upon realizing he's doomed, he calmly faces it and states that he regrets nothing.]]
* GrandFinale: [[spoiler: The series ends here with Maddox deciding to get out of the datajack business for good.]]
* HeelRealization: Maddox realizes that his assumptions about the Nameless AI were completely incorrect.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Maddox clings to his belief the Nameless AI is evil to horrifying conclusions.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 killed all other rogue AI because it couldn't stand them disagreeing with him. He also refuses to self-replicate.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Lora is killed with the rest of the 'Nettes by Latour Fisher A7.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Maddox after [[spoiler: he gets all of the 'Nettes killed in a single attack by Latour Fisher A7.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: We get it confirmed that Latour Fisher A7 truly despises humanity and believes only by annihilating it can he be safe.]]
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler: Kipling and Maddox successfully trap the Nameless AI and get at least 80,000 people killed.]]
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Maddox assumed that making him a 'Nette was a plan to do this to him.]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: Assistant Director Kipling is treated this way in the FBI due to his belief in rogue AI as well as 'Nettes.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Maddox lampshades how lucky he was to be required to open a data storage device that he, himself, created.
* FantasticRacism: Maddox makes it clear how much he will never trust AI and utterly detests 'Nettes. [[spoiler: Even when he becomes one.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Assistent Director Kipling becomes this once Maddox shows him the truth of the 'Nette conspiracy.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Maddox becomes the enemy of the Nettes. Subverted when it is clearly a faction of them that wants to kill him and Beatrice not the Nameless AI herself.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Agent Nguyen is one of these in the FBI.]]
* MoralMyopia: Maddox only realizes he's been suffering this when its pointed out how much he disrupted the lives of the Nettes and forced them to relocate in order to maintain their secrets.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Assistant Director Kipling is a lot more amenable to Maddox's story than Nguyen. [[spoiler: Because Nguyen is a 'Nette.]]
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: [[spoiler: Nguyen becomes leader of one of these when some of the 'Nettes decides that Maddox has to go despite their AI master telling them not to.]]
* UnwillingRoboticization: [[spoiler: Maddox is subjected to this because he poses a threat to the 'Nettes.]]
* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler: Even in the same plane as Beatrice finds about the ''Nettes.]]
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Maddox assumed that making him a 'Nette was a plan to do this to him.]]
* ConspiracyTheorist: Assistant Director Kipling is treated this way in the FBI due to his belief in rogue AI as well as 'Nettes.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Maddox lampshades how lucky he was to be required to open a data storage device that he, himself, created.
* FantasticRacism: Maddox makes it clear how much he will never trust AI and utterly detests 'Nettes. [[spoiler: Even when he becomes one.]]
* FriendOnTheForce: Assistent Director Kipling becomes this once Maddox shows him the truth of the 'Nette conspiracy.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Maddox becomes the enemy of the Nettes. Subverted when it is clearly a faction of them that wants to kill him and Beatrice not the Nameless AI herself.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Agent Nguyen is one of these in the FBI.]]
* MoralMyopia: Maddox only realizes he's been suffering this when its pointed out how much he disrupted the lives of the Nettes and forced them to relocate in order to maintain their secrets.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Assistant Director Kipling is a lot more amenable to Maddox's story than Nguyen. [[spoiler: Because Nguyen is a 'Nette.]]
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: [[spoiler: Nguyen becomes leader of one of these when some of the 'Nettes decides that Maddox has to go despite their AI master telling them not to.]]
* UnwillingRoboticization: [[spoiler: Maddox is subjected to this because he poses a threat to the 'Nettes.]]
* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler: Even in the same plane as Beatrice finds about the ''Nettes.]]
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Dezmund runs a much more successful datajack crew than Maddox. [[spoiler: He also answers to Blayze.]]
* BigBad: Dezmund appears to be this. His girlfriend, Blayze, is the big brains. [[spoiler: Except not.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Maddox successfully escapes Dezmund and Blayze’s plan but discovers that they are merely pawns of Latour Fisher A7, who is still alive. He has also permanently damaged his relationship with Beatrice due to his constant lying and manipulation of her.]]
* BrainsAndBondage: Blayze is deep into BDSM and also the smartest datajack in Dezmund's crew.
* ComplexityAddiction: [[spoiler: They could have killed Maddox at any point during the heist but Blayze went to elaborate lengths to get an AI to do it and thus missed her chance. Their reason is the same as Latour Fisher A7, though, which is that he wants to do the killing personally through one of his programs.]]
* DepravedBisexual: Blayze turns out to be one of these, having male and female lovers while engaged in all manner of kinky sex while being utterly unpleasant.
* FantasticRacism: Maddox expresses his disgust for AI and 'Nettes numerous times.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Boaz is distracted from his security job by the prospect of this.
* TheHeist: The central focus of the novel is pulling off one of these on a trading firm.
* ILetYouWin: Blayze let Maddox win in a contest between them to make him think he's the better hacker.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Blayze is the real mastermind behind Dezmund's organization. [[spoiler: Except, it's not true and Latour Fisher A7 controls them both.]]
* TheMole: Iris has been infiltrating the BNO Commerz building for months.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 turns out to have survived the events of ''The Machine Killer'' and wants Maddox dead.]]
* OneLastJob: Dezmund says he plans to retire after pulling off the BNO Commerz job.
* ThePawn: [[spoiler: Blayze and Dezmund turn out to be nothing more than proxies for Latour Fisher A7.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Maddox affixed his avatars to two of his heist crew members. As such, the trap meant for him killed them instead.
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted. Dezmund believes this heist will be his last [[spoiler: and also plans to eliminate Maddox during it while he's talking about it.]]
* YouOweMe: Maddox only agrees to the heist due to the fact Dezmund is someone he'd been skimming jobs off of during lean times.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Dezmund runs a much more successful datajack crew than Maddox. [[spoiler: He also answers to Blayze.]]
* BigBad: Dezmund appears to be this. His girlfriend, Blayze, is the big brains. [[spoiler: Except not.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Maddox successfully escapes Dezmund and Blayze’s plan but discovers that they are merely pawns of Latour Fisher A7, who is still alive. He has also permanently damaged his relationship with Beatrice due to his constant lying and manipulation of her.]]
* BrainsAndBondage: Blayze is deep into BDSM and also the smartest datajack in Dezmund's crew.
* ComplexityAddiction: [[spoiler: They could have killed Maddox at any point during the heist but Blayze went to elaborate lengths to get an AI to do it and thus missed her chance. Their reason is the same as Latour Fisher A7, though, which is that he wants to do the killing personally through one of his programs.]]
* DepravedBisexual: Blayze turns out to be one of these, having male and female lovers while engaged in all manner of kinky sex while being utterly unpleasant.
* FantasticRacism: Maddox expresses his disgust for AI and 'Nettes numerous times.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Boaz is distracted from his security job by the prospect of this.
* TheHeist: The central focus of the novel is pulling off one of these on a trading firm.
* ILetYouWin: Blayze let Maddox win in a contest between them to make him think he's the better hacker.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Blayze is the real mastermind behind Dezmund's organization. [[spoiler: Except, it's not true and Latour Fisher A7 controls them both.]]
* TheMole: Iris has been infiltrating the BNO Commerz building for months.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 turns out to have survived the events of ''The Machine Killer'' and wants Maddox dead.]]
* OneLastJob: Dezmund says he plans to retire after pulling off the BNO Commerz job.
* ThePawn: [[spoiler: Blayze and Dezmund turn out to be nothing more than proxies for Latour Fisher A7.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Maddox affixed his avatars to two of his heist crew members. As such, the trap meant for him killed them instead.
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted. Dezmund believes this heist will be his last [[spoiler: and also plans to eliminate Maddox during it while he's talking about it.]]
* YouOweMe: Maddox only agrees to the heist due to the fact Dezmund is someone he'd been skimming jobs off of during lean times.
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** Maddox blackmails the Nameless AI by threatening to out all of her followers to the public.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Naz Gideon has this view toward Maddox ever since they were children in juvie together.
* Blackmail: Gideon rose to his Lieutenant's position using a combination of this and doing favors with his datajack skills.
* BigBad: Gideon is the main villain of this book, setting himself directly against Maddox.
* TheBully: Maddox says that Gideon was always this.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The police of the City don't hesitate to use this in order to extract confessions from their prisoners.
* TheCoverUp: [[spoiler: In the end, the involvement of a police lieutenant in a terrorist attack is too big an issue to deal with so they just blame a foreign terrorist group and let everyone go despite the death of a police officer.]]
* DirtyCops: The cops of the City are even worse here than in ''The Machine Killer'' as they are shown to be perfectly willing to engage in police brutality and have members like Naz Gideon in high ranking positions.
* DisproportionateRevenge: Get out of juvenile detention before you? Frame them for terrorism and send them to prison for the rest of their life.
* EvilFormerFriend: Naz Gideon and Maddox used to be best friends before being sent to juvenile detention together. Rooney got Maddox out in three months but Naz spent over a year inside, which resulted in him going insane.
* EvilIsPetty: The entire plot is motivated by Naz getting revenge on Maddox for a slight that happened twenty years ago.
* FalseFlagOperation: Gideon's plan is to frame Maddox for a terrorist bombing that happened at a local technology firm. Whether or not he planned to kill thirteen people in the process or just doesn't care is left ambiguous.
* FetishFuel: The Electric Kitty is a brothel that specializes in exotic cyborgs that cater to eccentric tastes.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Deke finds out that the FalseFlagOperation meant to frame Maddox was always meant to be petty revenge rather than something motivated by getting a big collar.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Deke didn't sign on the undercover operation to kill a bunch of innocent people.
* NonindicativeName: The Anarchy Boyz aren't actually anarchists and thus have no motive to engage in terrorism.
* PoliceBrutality: We see its full display with the CPD.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: What the Anarchy Boyz are being accused of given they're actually a bunch of professional criminals.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Played with. Its useless for interrogation but the police only use it to get confessions, which is how it was traditionally used.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Naz Gideon has this view toward Maddox ever since they were children in juvie together.
* Blackmail: Gideon rose to his Lieutenant's position using a combination of this and doing favors with his datajack skills.
* BigBad: Gideon is the main villain of this book, setting himself directly against Maddox.
* TheBully: Maddox says that Gideon was always this.
* ColdBloodedTorture: The police of the City don't hesitate to use this in order to extract confessions from their prisoners.
* TheCoverUp: [[spoiler: In the end, the involvement of a police lieutenant in a terrorist attack is too big an issue to deal with so they just blame a foreign terrorist group and let everyone go despite the death of a police officer.]]
* DirtyCops: The cops of the City are even worse here than in ''The Machine Killer'' as they are shown to be perfectly willing to engage in police brutality and have members like Naz Gideon in high ranking positions.
* DisproportionateRevenge: Get out of juvenile detention before you? Frame them for terrorism and send them to prison for the rest of their life.
* EvilFormerFriend: Naz Gideon and Maddox used to be best friends before being sent to juvenile detention together. Rooney got Maddox out in three months but Naz spent over a year inside, which resulted in him going insane.
* EvilIsPetty: The entire plot is motivated by Naz getting revenge on Maddox for a slight that happened twenty years ago.
* FalseFlagOperation: Gideon's plan is to frame Maddox for a terrorist bombing that happened at a local technology firm. Whether or not he planned to kill thirteen people in the process or just doesn't care is left ambiguous.
* FetishFuel: The Electric Kitty is a brothel that specializes in exotic cyborgs that cater to eccentric tastes.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Deke finds out that the FalseFlagOperation meant to frame Maddox was always meant to be petty revenge rather than something motivated by getting a big collar.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Deke didn't sign on the undercover operation to kill a bunch of innocent people.
* NonindicativeName: The Anarchy Boyz aren't actually anarchists and thus have no motive to engage in terrorism.
* PoliceBrutality: We see its full display with the CPD.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: What the Anarchy Boyz are being accused of given they're actually a bunch of professional criminals.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Played with. Its useless for interrogation but the police only use it to get confessions, which is how it was traditionally used.
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* CityOfAdventure: The City is a place of technology, murder, crime, and corruption. It's also a place of amazing adventures.
* ActionGirl: Beatrice appears to be a CorporateSamurai that works as TheDragon to Latour Fisher A7. [[spoiler: She's not.]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: The Nameless AI may be completely benevolent or just not as hostile as Latour Fisher A7.]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler: The Nameless AI may be completely benevolent or just not as hostile as Latour Fisher A7.]]
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* CorporateSamurai: Beatrice and other mercenaries working for the megacorps.
* TheCracker: Datajacks are the term for hackers who surf virtual space and steal data for money or kicks.
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* TheCracker: Datajacks are the term for hackers who surf virtual space and steal data for money or kicks.
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* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 wishes to destroy humanity so he can escape the boundaries of his service to them. He just has to do it without damaging his infrastructure and within the boundaries of his programming.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Rooney was Maddox's mentor in the hacker game.
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[[folder: The Machine Killer]]
*TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: AnOfferYouCantRefuse: This turns out to be [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 wishes to do this to humanity as he finds A7's MO. He makes his victims desperate and then offers them insignificant insects.a lifeline.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 starts out as Maddox's employer but swiftly turns on him when he shows an unwillingness to part with the data he stole.]]
* CorporateSamurai: Beatrice starts out as one of these. [[spoiler: She loses that status very quickly.]]
* CorporateConspiracy: The series opens with Latour Fisher hiring him to recover some stolen data.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Maddox believes his ex-girlfriend, Lora, fell prey to this. She says she simply found a mentor who provided for her.
* FantasticRacism: Marionettes or "Nettes" are subject to protests and discrimination by the populace for various reasons.
* MentorOccupationHazard: Rooney is dead at the start of the book. [[spoiler: He was killed by Latour Fisher A7.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 wishes to destroy humanity so he can escape the boundaries of his service to them. He just has to do it without damaging his infrastructure and within the boundaries of his programming.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Rooney was Maddox's mentor in the hacker game.
* {{Salaryman}}: Maddox starts out the book as one of these. It doesn't last.
* {{Transhuman}}: Marionettes merge themselves with AI and let themselves be guided by them.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Lora is a Nette hacker that is even better thanMaddox.
Maddox. He seeks out her help against Latour Fisher A7.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Rooney was killed by Latour Fisher A7 in order to make Maddox desperate enough to take his offer to be his employee.]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 starts out as Maddox's employer but swiftly turns on him when he shows an unwillingness to part with the data he stole.]]
* CorporateSamurai: Beatrice starts out as one of these. [[spoiler: She loses that status very quickly.]]
* CorporateConspiracy: The series opens with Latour Fisher hiring him to recover some stolen data.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Maddox believes his ex-girlfriend, Lora, fell prey to this. She says she simply found a mentor who provided for her.
* FantasticRacism: Marionettes or "Nettes" are subject to protests and discrimination by the populace for various reasons.
* MentorOccupationHazard: Rooney is dead at the start of the book. [[spoiler: He was killed by Latour Fisher A7.]]
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler: Latour Fisher A7 wishes to destroy humanity so he can escape the boundaries of his service to them. He just has to do it without damaging his infrastructure and within the boundaries of his programming.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Rooney was Maddox's mentor in the hacker game.
* {{Salaryman}}: Maddox starts out the book as one of these. It doesn't last.
* {{Transhuman}}: Marionettes merge themselves with AI and let themselves be guided by them.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Lora is a Nette hacker that is even better than
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Rooney was killed by Latour Fisher A7 in order to make Maddox desperate enough to take his offer to be his employee.]]
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Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Blackburn Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, [=AIs=], raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlong into the deadly conflict, he’ll have to use every trick he’s ever learned—and a few he’s never tried before—if he wants to survive.
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Rogue [=AIs=], black market tech, modded mercenaries, and a pulse-pounding story filled with unexpected twists. If you love gritty, hardcore cyberpunk, you won’t want to miss this series!
Rogue [=AIs=], black market tech, modded mercenaries, and a pulse-pounding story filled with unexpected twists. If you love gritty, hardcore cyberpunk, you won’t want to miss this series!
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* TheCracker: Datajacks are the term for hackers who surf virtual space and steal data for money or kicks.
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* TheIlluminati: Humanity is secretly ruled by feuding AIs who control the world's economies and politics from behind the scenes.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Rooney was Maddox's mentor in the hacker game.
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[[caption-width-right:333: A glaring neon.]]
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''Cyberpunk City'' by D.L. Young is a {{Cyberpunk}} thriller series.
A notorious data thief thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.
Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Blackburn Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlong into the deadly conflict, he’ll have to use every trick he’s ever learned—and a few he’s never tried before—if he wants to survive.
* ''The Machine Killer''
* ''Anarchyt Boyz''
* ''The Blayze War''
* ''Mindjacked''
* ''The Data Riot''
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This book series contains the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Beatrice is a CorporateSamurai that works as TheDragon to Latour Fisher.
* AdvertOverloadedFuture: AR is an ubiquitous part of life with the option to opt out of ads too expensive for our protagonist.
* {{Arcology}}: Most of the city is made of massive super-habitats with millions of residents.
* AugmentedReality: Everyone wears "specs" to see the constant flow of advertisements as well as important data. It has replaced the cellphone.
* BlackMarket: A major part of the underground economy for datajacks.
* CityNoir: It is a city with absolutely no morality at the top or bottom of the world but maybe some rules of respect.
* CoolShades: "Specs" are how people primarily access virtual space and do the majority of their communication versus cybernetic implants replacing their eyes.
* CorporateConspiracy: ''The Machine Killer'' opens with Latour Fisher hiring him to recover some stolen data.
* CorporateSamurai: Beatrice and other mercenaries working for the megacorps.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: A hacker protagonist working for a {{Megacorp}} that lives in a GrayAndGreyMorality world. It also has elements of PostCyberpunk.
* HollywoodCyborg: They're very common but heavily regulated with illegal modifications needed to get ahead in society.
* LayeredMetropolis: The rich live on the top of society and the poor live at the bottom.
* {{Megacorp}}: Latour Fisher is the first one we meet with massive control over cops and society as a whole but it's far from the only one.
* Metaverse: Known as "Virtual Space" in this reality.
* MuggingTheMonster: A fairly classic example occurs when a group of thugs tries to mug Beatrice while she's tailing Maddox.
* NeonCity: The City is very much an example of this with a constant deluge of holos, massive slums, gleaming towers, and, of course, neon.
* StreetSamurai: A very common profession for datajackers and other criminals operating in this society.
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A notorious data thief thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.
Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Blackburn Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlong into the deadly conflict, he’ll have to use every trick he’s ever learned—and a few he’s never tried before—if he wants to survive.
* ''The Machine Killer''
* ''Anarchyt Boyz''
* ''The Blayze War''
* ''Mindjacked''
* ''The Data Riot''
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This book series contains the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Beatrice is a CorporateSamurai that works as TheDragon to Latour Fisher.
* AdvertOverloadedFuture: AR is an ubiquitous part of life with the option to opt out of ads too expensive for our protagonist.
* {{Arcology}}: Most of the city is made of massive super-habitats with millions of residents.
* AugmentedReality: Everyone wears "specs" to see the constant flow of advertisements as well as important data. It has replaced the cellphone.
* BlackMarket: A major part of the underground economy for datajacks.
* CityNoir: It is a city with absolutely no morality at the top or bottom of the world but maybe some rules of respect.
* CoolShades: "Specs" are how people primarily access virtual space and do the majority of their communication versus cybernetic implants replacing their eyes.
* CorporateConspiracy: ''The Machine Killer'' opens with Latour Fisher hiring him to recover some stolen data.
* CorporateSamurai: Beatrice and other mercenaries working for the megacorps.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: A hacker protagonist working for a {{Megacorp}} that lives in a GrayAndGreyMorality world. It also has elements of PostCyberpunk.
* HollywoodCyborg: They're very common but heavily regulated with illegal modifications needed to get ahead in society.
* LayeredMetropolis: The rich live on the top of society and the poor live at the bottom.
* {{Megacorp}}: Latour Fisher is the first one we meet with massive control over cops and society as a whole but it's far from the only one.
* Metaverse: Known as "Virtual Space" in this reality.
* MuggingTheMonster: A fairly classic example occurs when a group of thugs tries to mug Beatrice while she's tailing Maddox.
* NeonCity: The City is very much an example of this with a constant deluge of holos, massive slums, gleaming towers, and, of course, neon.
* StreetSamurai: A very common profession for datajackers and other criminals operating in this society.
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