QUANTUM DEADLINE: A TECHNOLOGICAL THRILLER

Technological thriller, artificial intelligence, predictive algorithm: a science suspense techno thriller. The Quantum Mortality Index names one person in the room, and seventy-two hours remain.

Sarah Chen spent five years building a machine that reads mortality out of the most ordinary telemetry there is: the employee wellness data everyone hands to HR without a second thought. On demo day, in front of investors and the ethics board, the Index flags someone sitting in the auditorium. The probability is one nobody has seen outside a controlled model.

Three days later, her own name comes back.

What follows is a race where every hour counts twice: prove the algorithm is wrong, or understand why it never is. Across from her, Adrian Wolfe and Nexus Dynamics have already worked out what a mortality prediction is worth on an open market, and they will not wait for the ethics debate to end before selling it.

Eighteen chapters, tension that never drops, an ending that does not negotiate.

For readers of Blake Crouch, Michael Crichton and Andy Weir.