Wade Sanders sells information for a living—the kind people are not supposed to have, but always want. In a psi-aware Chicago where telepaths, shields, manipulators, and perception specialists have made gambling both more sophisticated and more dangerous, Wade survives by understanding the one thing no power has ever improved: human nature.

Then Mara Voss walks into his Wicker Park apartment with an assignment from Dominic Rinaldi, a crime boss with money, reach, and a reputation for making people useful or irrelevant. Rinaldi wants three hopeless long-shot horses—Copper Halo, Snowmelt, and Mercy Bell—to finish first, second, and third in the Kentucky Derby.

It cannot be done.

The horses are terrible. The race is psi-monitored. The track is watched. Any direct fix would light up every regulator from Chicago to Louisville.

So Wade finds another way.

He does not need to fix the race. He needs to fix what everyone believes about the race.

Using a foggy-minded small-time gambler, a legal bet, and the market’s fatal hunger for inside information, Wade sets off a signal cascade that turns absurd long shots into the center of a national betting frenzy. As the odds move and the public rushes toward certainty, Rinaldi must decide whether to let three useless horses expose him—or take the only clean exit left.

But Wade’s plan is being watched from every side: by Rinaldi, by Psi Crimes Lieutenant Frank DeLuca, and by Mara Voss, whose loyalties become less certain the closer she gets to the man she was sent to monitor.

Sharp, funny, and morally slippery, The Fix is a comic-crime thriller about gambling, psionics, reputation, and the oldest con in the world: making people believe they are finally on the inside.