You should read Robert Heinlein's “Friday”, Leigh.
It's not Friday yet.
In the novel Friday is a female Artifical Person whose vocation is the
time honored one of assassin. Her “family”, that she's bought into,
disavows her when they find out she's an AP. Assassin is OK, but AP? Oh
noes. There's something about her employer, I don't recall, but anyway
she's on the run because WWIII has broken out, and it's a corporate war
of terrorist attacks, assassinations, stock market manipulation,
politics, and not the least, deception and large scale propaganda.
Physical money is being outlawed, in order to be able to track
undesirables and possible problematic persons like her.
Oh dang, that sounds familiar. Well. :)
Cheers!,
- Alf
PS: I think Ben Bova also covered much the same angle on things.