Regulated Truth. The Ashton Frey Series, #2

The world runs on lies. Ashton Frey just remembers too many of them. When a man dead for three years turns up freshly murdered again, he should have walked away. Instead, Ashton, burned out, paranoid, and allergic to good decisions, takes the case anyway. Now he's falling headfirst into a conspiracy of digital ghosts, a cold war no one will admit to starting, and corporate gods auctioning off the last scraps of human dignity by the byte.
Plus shipping. To survive it, he'll need help from mercenaries, con artists, and at least two AIs several errors past sanity. Together, they'll attempt one last impossible heist: stealing the keys to reality itself. Regulated Truth is a sharp, action-packed, and bitterly funny plunge into a cyberpunk world so absurd, so familiar. you'll wish it wasn't.