Redundant: Who Gets Cut (The Condition Set)

By Timothy O'Brien

Rob Coleman reads cloud bills for a living. Not the totals - the story underneath.

He sees the orphaned systems, the duplicated platforms, and the half-million-dollar line item that nobody can explain and nobody wants their name on.

Rob is the director of FinOps at a vaccine-logistics company, one of the people who know what things actually cost. When a billionaire named Lei moves to acquire the company, Rob's numbers become the acquisition math - and every executive with something to hide starts booking coffee meetings in places without cameras.

Then Rob finds the line item that isn't waste. Someone changed a routing threshold in the cold-chain system, and fourteen hundred doses of pediatric vaccine spoiled in a depot overnight. It looked like a mistake. It was a test.

While the executives fight over what the buyer gets to see, Rob follows the numbers into something no dashboard was built to show him: a saboteur inside his own building, and a plan much bigger than one warehouse.

Redundant is Book I of The Condition Set, a trilogy of near-future novels about work, capital, and artificial intelligence. The weapons are spreadsheets, audit logs, and meeting invites. The question is the one every company is already asking: when the cost data starts pointing at people, who gets cut?

For readers of The Warehouse, Severance, and Burn-In - fiction where institutions and paperwork drive the plot, not decorate it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKDWYC9C
• ISBN13: 9798998204951
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Discursive
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.1"