Machinehood

In 2095 most people depend on pills that keep them alive and let them compete with AI in a gig economy. Welga Ramirez, a former special forces soldier turned bodyguard, loses a client in an attack by the Machinehood, a group that hits several major pill funders at once and demands that pill production stop within a week. As panic spreads, she is pulled back into intelligence work to find out who they are. A near-future thriller about work and what a person is.