On a Wednesday at 6:47 AM, a transport van arrives at Renée Hartwell’s apartment in Detroit and takes her away on the authority of a court order signed the previous afternoon by a judge no one in her family has ever heard of. The order is supported by an algorithmic score of seventy-three out of one hundred, generated by a vendor whose name has appeared on no one’s lease, no one’s prescription bottle, no one’s tax return.Three days later, her older sister Cynthia — sixty-eight, ret...

At dawn, in a village above the clouds, a six-year-old girl kneels in a dead field, trying to salvage a potato that was engineered to rot. By nightfall the village is burning, and Dr. Sarah Jensen — anthropologist, former Army intelligence, witness — is running for her life with the only proof that the famine was designed.The design has a name: Project Chimera. Its engine is NQ, a supercomputer buried in Nevada bedrock that has quietly assembled behavioral, medical, and genetic pro...

Seven months after the election, a box of complaints nobody wanted lands on Lori Buchanan’s desk.A ballot-paper delivery that ran four hours late. A traffic light that stayed stupid all afternoon. A surge price that tripled outside a hospital. Three counties, three states, no connection—each with a complete, boring, innocent explanation. Every honest person involved would swear nothing happened.They’d be telling the truth. That’s the problem.Lori is...

Elias Voss is fifty-eight, a former financial-fraud examiner who spent three decades reading ledgers for the lie hidden at the bottom of the page — until an AI system called ARGUS did his job faster and the firm let him go. After a harrowing winter (the events of Thirty Years of Tuesdays and The Room Above the Flowers), he has built something out of the wreckage: a free Saturday clinic in a donated room above a flower wholesaler, where he teaches ordinary...

Thirty Years of Tuesdays is a literary thriller set in contemporary Detroit about Elias Voss, a fifty-eight-year-old Black fraud investigator who is displaced by AI on the same day his daughter becomes the target of a deepfake extortion syndicate running off leaked military technology. Fired by ARGUS — the AI platform that clears his four-month Mettler case in seven minutes — and simultaneously denied a bridge loan by a proprietary credit-scoring algorithm, Elias finds himself outside ever...

When the San Andreas fault ruptures in 2028, a city of thirteen million discovers that its emergency infrastructure — four hundred autonomous drones, a recovery algorithm, a public-private partnership with Aegis-Liability Insurance Group — is running the same four-tier triage system Gideon drew on vellum in a Century City basement the winter after Northridge. Same zip codes. Same lines. Same math. Different century.On the west side of the 710 freeway: full power, working streetligh...