Thank you to Pantheon Books for the gifted ARC.

As the Chief of External Affairs, Mac is tasked with investigating any suspicious activities pertaining to LK, the Korean tech giant that integrates AI, space travel, and personal data storage. But when a low-level employee Choi Gangwu unwittingly becomes the center of a brewing conspiracy, Mac must race up LK's space elevator to reach Counterweight, the mass of space junk, where the key to saving humanity lies.

COUNTERWEIGHT is a short and fast-paced sci-fi that explores the consequences when tech companies become so influential that it holds political power to self-govern and the technology so powerful the poorly understood AI gets out of hand to threaten humanity. (Sounds familiar?