The Ashton Frey Series

Ashton Frey is a washed-up private investigator with a burned-out neural implant and a job he should’ve walked away from. Now he’s chasing a corporate conspiracy from the gutters of Helsinki to the permafrost of the Arctic north. Haunted by his past, hunted by kill teams, and carrying an ego-maniacal AI in his head that won’t shut up.

The world runs on lies. Ashton Frey just remembers too many of them. When a man dead for three years turns up freshly murdered again, he should have walked away. Instead, Ashton, burned out, paranoid, and allergic to good decisions, takes the case anyway. Now he’s falling headfirst into a conspiracy of digital ghosts, a cold war no one will admit to starting, and corporate gods auctioning off the last scraps of human dignity by the byte. Plus shipping. To survive it, he’ll need help from mercenaries, con artists, and at least two AIs several errors past sanity.