THE ARGUS DIRECTIVE: Book #4 of The Ghost Crew series.

They stole billions to buy their peace. Now, they must steal the future to save the world.
After dismantling a shadowy European syndicate, former NYPD Detective Elias Thorne and his master-thief brother, Leo, have finally earned their retirement. Hidden away in an island sanctuary with billions in untraceable crypto, the Ghost Crew is officially off the board. But peace is a luxury ghosts can rarely afford.
When their hacker intercepts a heavily encrypted ping from the frozen wasteland of Siberia, the crew uncovers a terrifying reality: The Argus Directive. It isn’t a cartel, and it isn’t a government agency. It’s an advanced, predictive machine-learning algorithm that doesn’t just foresee global geopolitical disasters and market crashes—it actively engineers them for profit.
Controlled by a brilliant, sociopathic mastermind known only as the Architect, Argus is preparing to trigger a financial collapse that will reduce the global economy to ashes.
Lured into a deadly, explosive ambush in the Kamchatka mountains, the crew barely escapes the ice with their lives, only to realize the true brain of the machine is mobile. To stop the Architect, they must execute the most impossible, audacious heist in human history: boarding a heavily armed, rogue Russian nuclear icebreaker currently navigating the treacherous Barents Sea, and physically severing its connection to the transatlantic fiber-optic grid.
With a private army hunting them, a catastrophic nuclear meltdown ticking down to zero, and the fate of the world hanging by a single fiber-optic thread, Elias, Leo, and their team must push past the limits of human endurance to unplug a digital god.
The Argus Directive is a blistering, high-tech espionage thriller that takes the heist genre to absolute extremes. Perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Mission: Impossible, this globe-trotting adventure proves that sometimes, the only way to save the world is to rob it blind.