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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5004308" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'm taking a stab at simplifying your summary.  it may reveal something."When his friend Afi calls for help from a politically volatile state,  Jaime Adricks braves a nation on the brink of civil war in order to save this woman he once loved, but to reach her he must accept the aid of a mysterious local woman and piece together a mystery hidden by an advanced artificial intelligence."All I did was cut out stuff (and fixed an article).What's left is a basic boy's old girlfriend needs help, with the possibility of a love triangle by involving a new female character that is needed to rescure her.  The sci-fi element remains since I didn't change "who" created the mystery to be solved.My take on it from there is that this would be a near future story, with an AI that is destabilizing the government, and Afi had been involved in the research corporation that originally built the AI.  The mysterious local woman may be a hacker, who has seen the code for the AI.The result would be a romance novel set in a not quite Neuromancer/Skynet-takeover world.I suspect that my summary written as a novel by you would be better than yours, simply because you can focus on the elements I kept, rather than trying to incorporate all of the extra elements.</blockquote>