Contract of the Damned
Framed for infidelity by the mafia kingpin who exploited her brilliance, the former queenpin escaped prison to turn his own enamored son against him.
Pioneering technologist Reynold Winston returns from decades in overseas seclusion to unveil a breakthrough artificial intelligence system that defines modern computing. Arriving unannounced at a luxury hotel in modest traveling clothes, he encounters his son's snobbish fiancée, Erin. Mistaking the humble elder for an impoverished drifter attempting to crash her elite reception, Erin orders her guards to assault him, ruthlessly grinding his revolutionary microchip under her designer heel.
Unbeknownst to the vicious socialite, global broadcast satellites and international defense investors are tuned directly into the venue's live presentation feed. When Reynold cleans the dust from his jacket and steps up to the primary podium, his true identity as the world's most reclusive billionaire inventor stuns the international assembly. With Erin facing catastrophic criminal ruin, the legendary pioneer watches her desperate social ladder shatter permanently.
