The Nine
As earthquakes, a runaway rocket, a jammed dam gate and a market crash erupt on four continents in the same week, Nole Alset races to recruit nine of the world's most guarded geniuses before whoever is sabotaging the recruitment can stop the exodus's leadership from ever sitting in the same room.
Nole Alset crosses the globe in a single frantic week, catching each of nine legendary specialists in the exact moment their competence is tested to the limit — and making his impossible pitch while the wreckage is still settling. One by one they say no, until the same intrusion signature turns up in a nuclear plant, a stock exchange, and finally Gravitrek's own servers, proving someone already knows what Alset is building. When all nine finally sit down together at Gravitrek Headquarters, the sabotage follows them inside the building, and the only way to stop it is to learn, badly and then together, an old Neterios work-chant meant for nine hands acting as one. They save the room — and discover the attack came from a badge that belongs to someone Alset trusts completely.