One Wild True Moment

2019

Genre: Literary Fiction

Sub-Genres: Comic literary thriller

A naïve hacker stumbles through corporate crime, lies, and being accused of murder without caring much about reality — until one wild true moment breaks the spell.

Synopsis: One Wild True Moment

Author: Gary Marks

Cody Masterson is a coder, hacker, and wannabe game maker who understands virtual worlds far better than real life. To him, the passing days feel like just another way to play: get to the next level and see what happens.

Then a high school friend, Chloe Jensen, walks back into his life.

Beautiful, rich, and reckless, Chloe pulls Cody out of a cyber-security trade show and into a private sauna, then informs him that she's pregnant—and plans to pin it on him.

Within days, Cody is fired by her billionaire father—who happens to be his boss—accused of murdering Chloe’s fiancé, and dragged into a corporate maze filled with federal agents, jail time, a Rottweiler named Bob, and the worst birthday of his life.

This wild roller-coaster comedy novel seems like it will twist and turn forever.

But when Cody’s first love, Scarlet, invites him to a café for lunch, the story shifts from comedic disaster to something much harder for Cody to believe—one wild true moment of proof that something beautiful exists beyond the game.