The Lottery Ticket

De: CJ Williams

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

When revenge costs $1.8 billion, it’s worth every penny.

Devin Reed has hit rock bottom – literally – he sleeps on cot #187 in a homeless shelter. Once a successful shipping company owner, he lost everything to Marcus Thorne, the solar system’s most ruthless corporate titan. With his business destroyed and his wife dead from tainted medicine, Devin has nothing left but rage and a burning desire for payback.

Then fate intervenes in the form of a discarded lottery ticket pulled from a trash bin. One impulsive rescue of someone else’s “worthless” paper. Overnight, Devin is transformed from shelter resident to a billionaire. Now he has the ultimate war chest – and Marcus Thorne has no idea what’s coming for him.

What follows is the most expensive revenge plot in human history; a systematic campaign to dismantle Thorne’s corporate empire one “accident” at a time. From the docks of Luna to the asteroid belt, Devin assembles an unlikely crew of fellow Thorne victims, a blacklisted engineer, a disgraced military intelligence officer, and a young journalist with family secrets. Together, they’ll expose corruption, hijack supply chains, and turn Thorne’s own tactics against him.

But Thorne didn’t become a trillionaire by playing fair. As the corporate war escalates from boardroom sabotage to actual space battles, Devin discovers that some victories cost more than money – and the line between justice and vengeance is thinner than the vacuum of space.

A darkly comic space opera about the price of revenge, the power of found family, and what happens when the ultimate underdog gets unlimited resources to settle an old score.

A well told story

Great story from start to finish. I liked the twists in the turns and the plot. And it was science fiction so what’s not delight.

the story was great.

the "virtual voice" audio was terrible. I won't try another audio book with it for years. the technology is not working yet.

The first AI narrator I’ve heard - not ok

AI narration will never replace voice over artists if it always sounds like this. It’s metallic and monotone - very little natural inflection and no character voices. I hope audible replaces this attempt with a proper artist.

AI voice, not my fav

The story was ok, but the AI voice was so blah! Just a bored reading, no excitement or life like feeling. What a shame, it might have been ok, but I gave up after about 45 min.