Silicon Rush

By Sajid Mulla

The year is 2088. The most valuable resource on Earth isn't gold. It's a mint-condition NVIDIA RTX 4090.

In the neon-soaked slums of Mumbai, Jack "Chip" Miller is the best hardware broker in the business. He doesn't deal in drugs or weapons; he deals in "Legacy Silicon"-pristine 21st-century components that keep the world's crumbling infrastructure alive. If you need a capacitor for a fusion drive or a cooling fan for a server farm, you call Chip.

But Chip is tired of scraping by in the Boneyard. So when a mysterious corporate client offers him five million credits for a single job, he can't say no.

The Target: The Genesis Drive. An air-gapped, bomb-rigged server blade containing the lost encryption codes for the global banking system. The Location: The Neon Nexus. A fortress of a casino run by "The Collector," a ruthless warlord who skins thieves for sport. The Window: 48 hours.

To pull off the heist of the century, Chip can't just break in. He has to infiltrate the "Golden Era" Retro-Gaming Tournament. While his point-man distracts the guards with a round of Fleet Commander, Chip has to drill through liquid-cooling pipes, hack a biometric air-gap, and perform open-heart surgery on a computer wired with C4.

One lag spike. One dropped frame. One slip of the screwdriver. And it's Game Over.

Silicon Rush is a high-octane techno-thriller for fans of Mr. Robot, Ready Player One, and anyone who knows the difference between a CPU and a GPU.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GM1NDQ4Q
• ISBN13: 9798247163459
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"