The Wager

Becky Palmer is very good at her job. She's less good at reading the fine print.

As a mortgage banker grinding through another day, a sleek new Egolectric vehicle feels like exactly the treat she's earned.

One catastrophic financing clause later, Becky belongs to Lucian's empire — selling hundred-year car loans that quietly strip buyers of their legal rights, feeding a machine run by a man who may not be a man at all. Brain Bridge implants rewrite minds overhead. StarFall satellites eliminate anyone who objects.

Then Allen Markowitz shows up. Her strange, brilliant, cone-helmeted high school acquaintance has been watching Lucian longer than anyone — and he thinks Becky, compromised, complicit, and furious, might be exactly who his resistance needs.

A savage corporate horror comedy for fans of Black Mirror, American Psycho, and Snow Crash.