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About the Book

51%

In a future where corporations own everything --- including people --- one murder could ignite a revolution.

Twenty years from now, the United States is completely privatized. The Big Six syndicates own schools, roads, police departments...even human beings.

When a young immigrant woman --- 51% owned by the syndicates --- is brutally murdered, NYPD, Inc. Detective Juke O'Keefe and his partner, Crime Marketing Consultant Haylee Navarro, catch the case. Pregnant and broke, Haylee knows they can't crowdfund enough from a dead immigrant to pay for basic forensics, let alone their paychecks. But Juke, with his old-school sense of justice, is determined to find the killer.

Their search for the truth leads them to Juke's ex, Safiya Jones, a Resistance leader on the syndicates' most wanted list. As the three join forces, they stumble onto a conspiracy designed to destroy the last shreds of American freedom. To rescue 51 percenters --- and everyone else --- from syndicate control, they'll have to defeat the most ruthless, powerful AI in the world.

51% is a gritty, fast-paced thriller about power, justice, and what happens when everything --- even people --- can be owned.

51%
by Matt Witten

  • Publication Date: April 28, 2026
  • Genres: Dystopian, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Paperback: 370 pages
  • Publisher: Level Best Books
  • ISBN-10: N/A
  • ISBN-13: 9798898201739