For Alex and his internal team, there is no crisis more terrifying than forced mingling. When he is compelled to attend the Annual Industry Mixer—a high-stakes battlefield of glad-handing, schmoozing, and transactional small talk—the Nullroom is plunged into a state of high alert.Every handshake is a potential threat, every conversation a minefield. Spokesmind frantically drafts scripts for "spontaneous" banter, NoCaller erects impenetrable defenses against...

Having survived his war with Julian Thorne, Alex is a changed man—more powerful, more cynical, and more tired. But the cold war truce is shattered by an irresistible temptation: Julian offers to nominate Alex for a seat on the Meridian Council, a secret society of kingmakers who truly control the world. The price of admission? A single, morally repugnant task that goes against everything Alex used to stand for.The offer splits his internal Nullroom in two. Voidseeker, his impulsive...

Alex can manage a multi-million dollar corporate meltdown without breaking a sweat, but a week in a shared cabin with his family might just break him. When an email itinerary for a Lake Tahoe "getaway" arrives, his internal Nullroom declares a state of emergency.The mission: survive a week of his mother's anxiety-driven complaints, his father's self-absorbed monologues, and the uneducated, politically-charged rants of his hostile brother-in-law, Todd. The i...

Alex is a fifty-year-old PR professional at the top of his game. To the outside world, he is a master of calm, a seasoned gatekeeper of public narratives who can spin any crisis into a win. But inside his head, it's another story. His mind is run by the Nullroom, a chaotic, comically dysfunctional mission control center staffed by a team of personified psychological agents.There's Spokesmind, the verbose and pathologically anxious head of communications; Ta...

The game has changed. Alex's carefully ordered world is shattered by the arrival of Julian Thorne, a brilliant, ruthless, and utterly amoral rival who doesn't just want to win—he wants to conquer. When Julian discovers Alex's one true vulnerability—his fierce loyalty to his sister, Sarah, and her family—he launches a vicious, calculated attack not on Alex's business, but on their lives.To protect his family, Alex is forced to make a deal with a devil, taking on a morally bankrupt b...