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...

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...

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...

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...