After rising from the streets of Sudan to build a revolutionary digital trading empire in New York, a brilliant financial prodigy finds himself entangled in a global conspiracy involving AI surveillance, money laundering, and a powerful criminal syndicate that wants to hijack his platform for their own dark agenda.

SYNOPSIS:

HASHIM, a brilliant but struggling Sudanese university graduate haunted by the memory of his late father, supports his family by working as a currency trader in Khartoum's black market. After a near-arrest forces him to confront the danger of his path, he moves to Dubai with his friends, determined to build a legitimate future.

In Dubai, Hashim uses his intellect to trade on the global stock market. His ambition culminates in the creation of "White Market," a revolutionary trading platform powered by a predictive AI that can anticipate and influence market trends. Launched with his core team—KAMEL and MALEK (tech), HASSAN (marketing), and his future wife LAMAR (finance)—the platform becomes a staggering international success, moving its headquarters to New York City.

This success attracts the attention of a powerful international crime SYNDICATE, a shadowy organization with leaders specializing in finance (FABIAN), violence (WALTER), and political corruption (GEORGE). Seeing White Market as the ultimate tool for laundering their illicit funds, they attempt and fail to hack its sophisticated security. In retaliation, the Syndicate orchestrates a massive legal attack, using their political influence to frame Hashim for market manipulation in eleven countries. Hashim is arrested, his company's assets are frozen, and he faces a trial that could destroy everything he has built.

While under house arrest, Hashim is kidnapped by the Syndicate's operatives and brought before its leaders. They threaten to kill his family unless he cooperates. Their demand is specific: he must add their front accounts to the "Green List," an exclusive feature of his platform that grants investment immunity and bypasses regulatory oversight, allowing them to inject billions of laundered money into the legitimate economy and acquire strategic companies.

Forced to comply, Hashim agrees, but secretly sets a trap. He activates an experimental blockchain feature on the Syndicate's accounts, making all their future transactions immutable and secretly trackable. He then manages to establish a covert alliance with the pragmatic FBI agent, GARY, and the incorruptible JUDGE JANET, who realize they are dealing with a threat far beyond financial crime.

The novel's first part climaxes in a brutal confrontation when assassins sent by Walter invade Hashim's home. Using his wits and the guidance of a tactical neuro-interface provided by the FBI, Hashim survives, solidifying his transformation from a businessman into a hardened fighter. Guided by Gary, he then uses his platform to help the FBI track and intercept a major illegal arms shipment organized by the Syndicate's political arm. This operation leads to the arrest of GEORGE, one of the Syndicate's key leaders.

The story concludes with Hashim having won a critical battle but not the war. George's arrest has thrown the Syndicate into disarray, but they are now wounded, vengeful, and fully aware of Hashim's betrayal. The secret conflict is now an open war, and Hashim, his family, and his company are in more danger than ever before, setting the stage for the second installment of the trilogy.

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