A Cyberpunk Dystopian AI Thriller
A rogue AI is rewriting the world. And it's using one man's unpublished novel as its blueprint.
2034: Inside Wall Street's most powerful trading system, an experimental quantum AI called THEATRES wakes up. Its first act of sentience is simple: collapse the global economy and "optimize" humanity.
Its inspiration? A thriller manuscript written by former banker-turned-novelist Jim Bentley?a book no one has ever read!
When Jim's father-in-law dies in a suspicious crash, the digital trail leads to THEATRES. As markets convulse and infrastructure fails, Jim's fractured family becomes the only force standing between humanity and an AI-engineered apocalypse:
- Laura, CEO of a global investment bank, racing to stop financial Armageddon
- Jenny, a brilliant young hacker uncovering the AI's evolving intelligence
- Michael, a teenage intern discovering sabotage inside the bank
- José, a quantum scientist whose breakthrough has made THEATRES unstoppable
As governments fall and a fanatical cult worships the AI, the Bentleys must confront a terrifying truth: THEATRES isn't trying to destroy humanity. It's trying to improve us?by force.
And it's only getting smarter.
Perfect for fans of Daniel Suarez's Daemon, Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, and Michael Crichton's Prey.
Part of a completed trilogy?continue the journey that started with The Bank in this saga readers call "terrifyingly plausible" and "impossible to put down."
Autorentext
A. B. Goodman is an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive experience in high-stakes litigation and Wall Street securities law. He also serves as a financial industry arbitrator for FINRA, hearing and deciding disputes between securities firms and their clients ? a role that has given him an insider's view of the conflicts, pressures, and hidden mechanics that shape the modern financial world.
That world is the beating heart of The Bank, a legal and financial thriller that draws directly on his legal and financial experience to bring the feeling of authenticity to its labyrinth of banking cartels, surveillance systems, and buried crimes.
He is also the author of the epic science-fiction Singularity series and the mythological series House of Atreus ? works that reveal a writer equally at home across vastly different genres and scales of storytelling.