The Lottery Ticket

By CJ Williams

When revenge costs $1.8 billion, it's worth every penny.

Devin Reed has hit rock bottom - literally - he sleeps on cot #187 in a homeless shelter. Once a successful shipping company owner, he lost everything to Marcus Thorne, the solar system's most ruthless corporate titan. With his business destroyed and his wife dead from tainted medicine, Devin has nothing left but rage and a burning desire for payback.

Then fate intervenes in the form of a discarded lottery ticket pulled from a trash bin. One impulsive rescue of someone else's "worthless" paper. Overnight, Devin is transformed from shelter resident to a billionaire. Now he has the ultimate war chest - and Marcus Thorne has no idea what's coming for him.

What follows is the most expensive revenge plot in human history; a systematic campaign to dismantle Thorne's corporate empire one "accident" at a time. From the docks of Luna to the asteroid belt, Devin assembles an unlikely crew of fellow Thorne victims, a blacklisted engineer, a disgraced military intelligence officer, and a young journalist with family secrets. Together, they'll expose corruption, hijack supply chains, and turn Thorne's own tactics against him.

But Thorne didn't become a trillionaire by playing fair. As the corporate war escalates from boardroom sabotage to actual space battles, Devin discovers that some victories cost more than money - and the line between justice and vengeance is thinner than the vacuum of space.

A darkly comic space opera about the price of revenge, the power of found family, and what happens when the ultimate underdog gets unlimited resources to settle an old score.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHH6WMPS
• ISBN13: 9798292370505
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"