RA Shannon
Published: 2024-10-01
Total Pages: 448
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It's 2017 in New York City. Nick Bergquist and his three friends make a lewd bet. Using just their hacker skills and geo-tagged photographs, they bet that they can seduce any woman who walks by the bench that they are sitting on in Central Park. They each bet $100 and have six months to complete the bet. The first one to complete the bet wins the cash. As they start to work towards identifying and meeting the women in their photographs, Nick and his friends find themselves drawn into a larger fight between a famous hacker with the moniker "Goldman" and a Montenegrin organized cybercrime figure who goes by the title "The Russian." After going dark for several years, spawning many rumors of his death, Goldman has resurfaced in Manhattan to take his revenge on The Russian for turning him in to the FBI several years previously. The Russian and his gang just want Goldman dead. Nick's target turns out to be Goldman's girlfriend, Andrea. Things come to a head when one of The Russian's crew throws a grenade into a meeting between Nick, Andrea, and Goldman at a local restaurant. Now, law enforcement is involved. To make matters worse, one of Nick's friends, Arnold, uses the situation to blackmail The Russian and ends up being kidnapped by the gang. What started as a bet between four lonely friends is now a national issue with federal, state, and local law enforcement investigating each of them. They must all somehow stay out of jail, find Arnold, and extract themselves from this bet!