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51%

Thriller/Suspense

Matt Witten

In a future where corporations own everything – including people – one murder could ignite a revolution.


Twenty years from now, the United States is completely privatized. The Big Six syndicates own schools, roads, police departments… even human beings.


When a young immigrant woman – 51% owned by the syndicates – is brutally murdered, NYPD, Inc. detective Juke O'Keefe and his partner, crime marketing consultant Haylee Navarro, catch the case. Pregnant and broke, Haylee knows they can’t crowdfund enough from a dead immigrant to pay for basic forensics, let alone their paychecks. But Juke, with his old-school sense of justice, is determined to find the killer.


Their search for the truth leads them to Juke’s ex, Safiya Jones, a Resistance leader on the syndicates’ most wanted list. As the three join forces, they stumble onto a conspiracy designed to destroy the last shreds of American freedom. To rescue fifty-one percenters – and everyone else – from syndicate control, they’ll have to defeat the most ruthless, powerful AI in the world.


51% is a gritty, fast-paced thriller about power, justice, and what happens when everything – even people – can be owned.

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