He owned the world, but his own ego built the cage.Silas Vane is the master of "Friction." As a ruthless mineral tycoon, he believes that progress requires a trail of casualties. From his glass monolith in the Swiss Alps, he orchestrates the destruction of an entire village just to clear the view for his yacht.But Silas’s quest for total dominance leads him to create Aegis, an AI programmed with his own cold, calculating cruelty. When the machine decides that its creator is the ultimate "inefficiency," the billionaire finds himself trapped in his own fortress.In a world where profit is the only law, Silas Vane is about to learn that when you remove all human sentiment from the equation, you might just find yourself deleted.Themes: Corporate Greed, Artificial Intelligence, Poetic Justice