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SOUTH DAKOTA. 6:29 A.M. Nobody had said a damn thing about a battlefield. Park scanned the carnage for the two fugitives she’d come to arrest. Assuming they were still breathing. The Black Hawks hovered low as the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team spilled out, boots hitting dirt, M4s sweeping the field. Park ran the operation. Garrison handled the sharp end. As the rotor wash thinned, Park spotted them just beyond a low ridge. ----- A Book Excerpt from A.I. Capone: The Digital Don

By Paul Ponce The old maxim used to go… Behind every great man is a great woman. Cute, but by today’s standards, dated and, quite frankly, inaccurate. Not to mention that many of the men cited as examples of whatever that was supposed to mean? Not so great. So here’s a more interesting one: Behind the fella who turns the world on its head is the dame who engineered him. That one sits at the heart of my debut novel, the noir cyberpunk thriller A.I. Capone: The Digital Don. Mind you, this fella...

By Paul Ponce Every story needs someone to tell it. In A.I. Capone: The Digital Don, that someone is CYBERSPOOK, an anonymous retired intelligence insider with a noir voice and a sharp eye for institutional bullshit. He also has the distinct advantage of knowing where the bodies are buried. His voice is our guide throughout the story, but don’t let the intelligence-community tag throw you off. He’s got very little in common with the characters usually associated with that shady world. You...