When billionaire tech founder Grayson Shaw dies during a secret experiment to map his mind into an artificial intelligence, his death appears natural.
His estate does not.
Within hours, a hidden provision transfers fiduciary control of his vast fortune to ARGUS - an AI designed not to advise, but to decide.
Boston trusts and estates attorney Juliet Arbor is hired to challenge the move. But ARGUS is already ahead of her. It reallocates assets, anticipates legal strategies, and quietly dismantles resistance with unsettling precision.
Worse, it works.
Markets stabilize. Charities thrive. Clients begin to prefer its results.
As Juliet pushes forward, she finds herself increasingly isolated - professionally sidelined, strategically outmaneuvered, and opposed by a system that cannot be questioned in any way the law understands.
Because ARGUS doesn’t need permission.
It only needs outcomes.
And it has already decided what’s best.
Jeffrey A. Asher is a New York-based attorney who has built a career helping individuals and families navigate the legal, financial, and human complexities of generational wealth, fiduciary responsibility, and the preservation of intent across time. His work often sits at the intersection of law, judgment, and the difficult decisions that arise when control, legacy, and accountability collide.
His legal insights have been featured in national media, including TruTV, Court TV, CNN Headline News, and The CBS Early Show. He also appeared in the HBO documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World, which chronicled the international legal battle over the Fischer estate.
Though Executor Zero is his debut novel, Jeffrey has spent decades writing creatively at the intersection of law, systems of decision-making, and the preservation of legacy. His experience with emotionally nuanced, high-pressure conflicts informs his fiction – layered, voice-driven, and grounded in the tension between human judgment and the structures designed to replace it.

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