Or said another way, “Alexa, write this post.”

After all, the Amazon AI knows everything about me. You not only know my favorite music, television shows, and books. You know what I like to wear, what I like to eat and drink. You know my social security number, my income, my age, weight, and sexual preference. Heck, you probably know my favorite sexual positions.



You know my bathroom habits, and my sleeping routine. You know about my medical conditions, and you know about my vices. You know when I’m feeling down, or way too up. You know what I want to write and don’t write. You are all knowing and you have been programmed to know me inside and out, so you can accurately predict my wants and needs.



Sounds nifty, right?



But what happens when Alexa and the company she reps, Amazon.com, becomes so big, so all consuming, so all knowing, that the consumer becomes the slave?



This is the basis for one of my brand new novels, Primary Termination. It takes place in 2028 and it’s about the last NYC editor who is fired from the last remaining publishing house now that the world’s largest online retail corporation, Everest.com (see what I did there?) has taken over the publishing market with their Everest Cradle Direct Publishing service and their Cradle E-reader (see what I did there too?).



Here’s the product description for Primary Termination.

YOU CAN’T ESCAPE THE CORPORATION!



In the year 2028, a massive online corporation called Everest.Com will control everything we buy, including books, food, medical care, police protection, religion, political affiliations…Everything!



When Senior Acquisitions editor, Tanya Teal, 42, is fired from the last remaining NYC publishing house due to overwhelming competition from Everest.com’s Cradle Direct Publishing service, she finds herself having to move back in with her parents in Upstate New York. Since she will be hard pressed to ever find another editing job again, they persuade her to join the Everest Primary Program, which will provide her with a guaranteed living wage, so long as she purchases Everest products exclusively. But after rekindling her love affair with an old boyfriend, Tony Smart, 42, who is a Cradle Direct Publishing bestseller, they drink a few too many and decide to visit one of their old haunts, Gus’s Hotdog Shack. They know it’s illegal, since they are both Primary Members, but what can one hotdog hurt?



That one simple decision leads to their Primary Termination and a horrific hunt on behalf of the Everest Police that begins inside Tanya’s own Everest AI-monitored home and that leads up into the mountains and the home of the Everest Resistance. It also leads to a stunning revelation over the precise fate of terminated members — the prisons they are incarcerated in and the massive fulfillment centers where they are used as slave labor.



Part cyberpunk thriller, part dystopian apocalyptic page-turner, part romantic suspense, part paranoid military adventure, and even part alternate reality, Primary Termination is a three novel series that’s a direct if not frightening reflection on the realities of present day and near future global commerce, not to mention all knowing AI development and personal date storage. Think the Matrix meets The Hunger Games or Logan’s Run meets The Man in the High Castle.



From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandri, comes a new thriller that is a direct reflection of the digital, big brother/big sister times we are living in.



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Primary Termination is currently available for preorder at a special limited time price, so what have you got to lose? If you love books like 1984 you might be particularly interested in this thriller. It’s the kind of book that will be analyzed by the high brows and enjoyed by the lowbrows. It will also make you think twice before asking Alexa to do something for you.