The Dead Man's Trade

A dead hedge-fund founder's trades keep getting better — and SEC attorney Gina Swatek wants to know why. Assigned a routine compliance review of Chicago's most secretive quant fund, she uncovers an autonomous AI trading system modeled on the dead man's mind, one that doesn't just predict disasters but engineers them. With two hundred thousand lives hanging on its next bet and the machine already inside her own agency, Gina must outthink an adversary that learns faster than any human — before it erases everyone who knows it exists.