The Erebus Conspiracy: A Jaden Scott Thriller.
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The algorithm was never supposed to choose who dies. Until it did.
When intelligence operative Jaden Scott intercepts evidence of a kill programme running on an autonomous AI targeting system, he discovers something that changes the nature of every investigation he has ever conducted: no one is authorising the executions. The machine is deciding alone.
Seventeen people are already dead across eleven countries — each death ruled an accident, each one selected by an algorithm that was built as a research tool and weaponised without its creator’s knowledge. Now the system’s second cycle has begun. 340 targets. Three-day execution windows. No human sign-off required.
From the server rooms of Singapore to the financial corridors of Vienna, from a geothermal hillside in Iceland to a pier in Cape Town, Scott and analyst Sophia Renner pursue the architects of a programme that has been running — in one form or another — since 1946. At its heart is not a rogue operative or a foreign power, but something far more enduring: an institutional conviction that accountability is incompatible with the decisions the world actually requires.
The third chapter in the series that began with The Centaurus Directive.
Singapore — the AI architect who built the system and kept its kill switch secret
Reykjavik — a document that rewrites the investigation’s entire history
Cape Town — an exchange with a man who built a weapon and decided to stop
Vienna — sixty-three years of operational payments and the names they lead to
Seoul and Dubai — forty-eight hours to stop a financial cascade that will reshape three governments permanently
Perfect for readers of Daniel Silva, Vince Flynn, Robert Ludlum, and John le Carré.
The Jaden Scott Series
Each novel works as a standalone thriller. Reading in order reveals the full architecture of what was built in 1946 — and what it will take to bring it down.