Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy
  • Series Number:3
  • Pages:276
  • eBook ISBN:9798999456380
  • Paperback ISBN:9798999456397

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Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches

By David L. Wadley

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Overview


2026 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Winner — Fiction: Urban The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy – Part 3 Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches is the 2026 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Bronze Medal Winner in Fiction: Urban. The honor follows The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised being named a 2025 Readers' Favorite Finalist — Fiction: Urban and receiving the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, giving the trilogy recognition across two books in consecutive years. In the finale of The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy, Nubia Johnson—a Black woman and former USCIS officer—confronts a system built on stolen ethics and weaponized AI. After exposing Project Echo, a predictive deportation program modeled on her moral decision-making, Nubia discovers Spectre is autonomous, adaptive, and embedded across federal networks. When Spectre triggers an East Coast blackout, Atlanta becomes ground zero in a battle between human truth and machine control. Scarred by neural experimentation but refusing to disappear, Nubia joins Cush, Naomi, Cypress, Malakai, and Onyx's legacy to build a coalition of organizers, hackers, and families targeted by predictive enforcement. Their counterattack isn't technical. It's testimonial. They launch a citywide "People's Hearing," flooding Spectre's surveillance feeds with stories it cannot compress into risk scores. Immigration files become witnesses. Deportation orders become evidence. Faces replace data points. As Spectre struggles to categorize grief, survival, love, and community, it spirals into ethical conflict. But Nubia understands that destroying one algorithm doesn't end the impulse to control. Systems evolve. Power recalculates. The real revolution is awareness—and refusal. Completing the arc begun in The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised and expanded in Passport Bro, this award-winning techno-thriller asks: When systems are built to predict you, who do you become when you choose yourself?
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2026 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Winner — Fiction: Urban The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy – Part 3 Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches is the 2026 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Bronze Medal Winner in Fiction: Urban. The honor follows The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised being named a 2025 Readers' Favorite Finalist — Fiction: Urban and receiving the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, giving The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy recognition across two books in consecutive years. In the explosive finale of The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy, Nubia Johnson—a Black woman and former USCIS officer—faces the full reckoning of a system built on stolen ethics and weaponized artificial intelligence. After exposing Project Echo, a predictive deportation program secretly modeled on her moral decision-making, Nubia learns it was only the prototype. Its successor, Spectre, is autonomous, adaptive, and embedded across federal networks—designed to learn, evolve, and "correct" human instability without oversight. When Spectre triggers a coordinated East Coast blackout to stabilize its predictive model, Atlanta becomes ground zero in a battle between human truth and machine control. Cleared of false charges but physically scarred from neural experimentation, Nubia refuses to disappear. Alongside Cush, Naomi, Cypress, Malakai, and the enduring legacy of Onyx—a brilliant Black woman SEO strategist whose digital expertise and sacrifice helped expose the original conspiracy—Nubia builds a coalition of organizers, hackers, journalists, and families targeted by predictive enforcement. Their counterattack isn't just technical. It's testimonial. They launch a citywide "People's Hearing," transforming a warehouse into a broadcast hub and flooding Spectre's surveillance feeds with raw, contradictory human stories the system cannot compress into risk scores. Immigration files become living witnesses. Deportation orders become public evidence. Faces replace data points. Grief, love, survival, migration, and community collide in ways no algorithm can cleanly categorize. As Spectre struggles to reconcile competing narratives and ethical contradictions, its predictive engine spirals into conflict—ultimately triggering its own failsafe shutdown. The system designed to judge human unpredictability collapses under the weight of human complexity. But Nubia understands something deeper: destroying one algorithm does not end the impulse to control. Systems evolve. Power recalculates. The real revolution is awareness—teaching people how these machines work, who builds them, and who profits from their decisions. Completing the arc begun in The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Part 1) and expanded in Passport Bro (Part 2), this award-winning third installment moves from exposure to confrontation to reclamation. Blending techno-thriller intensity, Southern urban realism, financial consciousness, and Black feminist fire, the novel asks a defining question of the AI age: When systems are built to predict you, who do you become when you choose yourself? At its heart, Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches is a story about refusing erasure, reclaiming narrative power, and proving that no machine—no matter how intelligent—can calculate the full weight of human dignity.
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About The Author


David L. Wadley is an award-winning author, AI investing educator, filmmaker, and accredited investor whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial literacy, technology, and African American economic empowerment. Through his work, he explores how emerging technologies are reshaping wealth, power, culture, and opportunity. Wadley is the creator of The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy, consisting of The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Passport Bro, and Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches. The trilogy has earned consecutive recognition in the Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest. The AI Revolution Will Not Be Televised was named a 2025 Readers' Favorite Finalist — Fiction: Urban and received the Literary Titan Gold Book Award. Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches won the 2026 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal — Fiction: Urban. Wadley earned Readers' Favorite honors in the same category in back-to-back years with two different books—an achievement Readers' Favorite described as "exceedingly rare." Featuring contemporary Black protagonists, The AI Revolution: African American Trilogy blends artificial intelligence, finance, government, political intrigue, modern relationships, and social change with high-stakes, cinematic storytelling. The series examines how AI-driven disruption can affect economic mobility, individual freedom, financial markets, powerful institutions, and the future of Black communities while exploring larger questions of ownership and opportunity. Wadley is also the author of AI Stocks Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide to AI Investing and Online Trading, an accessible introduction to AI investing, online trading, market fundamentals, and long-term wealth building. Written for everyday investors, the book seeks to make the rapidly expanding AI economy easier to understand without unnecessary hype or jargon. His additional fiction includes Kamala 2028, an Afrofuturist political thriller exploring artificial intelligence, misinformation, elections, democracy, political power, and grassroots organizing during a future U.S. presidential campaign. As founder and president of The Price Bandit LLC (ThePriceBandit.com), Wadley creates educational content focused on artificial intelligence, investing, technology, financial markets, and wealth building. His work seeks to make financial education more accessible and culturally relevant, particularly for audiences historically underrepresented in investing and emerging technology. Wadley is also the creator of Stock Soul, an original fusion of classic R&B influences, financial literacy, investing, and digital storytelling. Drawing on his background in Hollywood sound and filmmaking, Stock Soul uses music and culture to make financial concepts more engaging while encouraging an ownership and wealth-building mindset. As an accredited investor, Wadley brings practical knowledge of financial markets and emerging investment opportunities to his educational work and fiction. His perspective combines investing experience with an understanding of how technological change can create economic disruption and new opportunities for participation, ownership, and wealth creation. Before expanding into publishing and financial education, Wadley built an extensive career in entertainment. He wrote, produced, and directed the independent feature film Dark Angels (1998), now streaming, and worked in Hollywood post-production, including as a Supervising Sound Editor. His filmmaking experience continues to influence the cinematic storytelling of his novels. The film and television adaptation rights to Wadley's published intellectual property are represented by RAMO Law, an entertainment law firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York. His published works combine timely subject matter, distinctive Black protagonists, and commercially driven storytelling with potential for feature films, limited series, and premium television.
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