Working in a near future where climate change has hit and hit hard, Sarah and JanetN, a human/AI research team. Their boring work for small businesses is disrupted when a friend/ex-lover vanishes; he was always a shady character. A major climate disruption in Southeast Asia has put the world into full food insecurity. There is great social distress over how much of America's bounty should be committed. A black-market gang has hijacked a grain shipment...