The Blockchain Killing by Robert J Muller *****

In The Blockchain Killing by Robert J Muller, Alec Chenais is a hacker torn between three forces. He works at 1Weaklink, a startup that is developing a toolset to break blockchain privacy for the NSA. Elliot Perry is a Silicon Valley billionaire who helped to elect Trump and wants to hack blockchain to rule the world. Ludivine is based in Paris and wants the 1Weaklink code for her own purposes. When Alec’s girlfriend, Aamna Jaffrey or AJ, and the better coder of the pair, is murdered, Alec abandons coding to seek revenge. An international technothriller of coding, murder, and money.

AJ is from Pakistan, and her parents expected her to marry to benefit the family business. When her mother introduces her to the man, “Aamna, this is Farazman Syed. He is to be your husband. And this is the matchmaker, Begum Rabia Safdar,” her response is, “Fuck you, you silly buffoon.” She escapes to MIT.

When Elliot Perry realized that he was up against the NSA, he moved his efforts onto the 222-meter mega-yacht "Mugwump" in international waters.

Alec is up against the NSA, Perry, and Ludivine. They all have unlimited financial, hacking, and murderous resources.

Alec’s mother is Mary Bethune Chenais. Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist, founder of Bethune-Cookman University. A wonderful biography of Mary Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt can be found in The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. https://1book42day.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-first-ladies-by-marie-benedict-and.html

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