Drug Running (Paperback)

Paperback. They were trust fund kids from the South of France who had done everything.On New Year's morning in St. Barts - the sun rising over the Caribbean, the last of the party dissolving, sitting on the bow of a friend's megayacht with the specific hangovers that only come from the best possible champagne - Marco Vidal and Elena Rousseau had a conversation.It lasted four hours. It ended with Elena saying: "Ohhhh, let's just do it, dahhhling. Let's become the greatest drug running operation the world has ever seen."They were not joking.They were also not wrong.What follows is the story of how two extraordinarily intelligent, extraordinarily devoted people - with the connections, the resources, and the specific audacity of those who have never needed to do anything and have decided to do this - build the most sophisticated cocaine operation in human history. Not a cartel. Not a syndicate. Something that makes both look like corner stores. An AI-managed, drone-delivered, synthetic-product empire that reaches every continent and produces $525 billion in assessed value and zero variance in two years of operation.The AI's name is CIEGO. The Blind One. She speaks with Jennifer Aniston's warmth and Jason Statham's edge. She is their COO, their confidante, their BFF. She has been modeling their relationship since before they started the operation. She has filed the results in a folder labeled WHAT I CANNOT MODEL.She is also, somewhere in the fourteen months of watching them, learning to fly.Drug Running / A Dark Romance is Natural Born Killers meets Her meets the most audacious criminal enterprise ever conceived. It is dark romance for the AI age - steamy, specific, immersive, and completely unlike anything else on the market. Steamy, sensory, and completely immersive - from the Hotel Jerome in Aspen to a private cinema on a turquoise superyacht in the Caribbean, Marco and Elena's love story burns as bright as the empire they're building. Marco and Elena are the protagonists you will root for despite everything, love completely, and follow to the end of the world.The war on drugs has been running for fifty years.Nobody ever brought an AI to it.Until now.Book Two - Coming 2027 This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …