SINGULARITY: THE AWAKENING

FOR FANS OF THE BANK: JIM BENTLEY IS BACK. THE WORLD HE TRIED TO SAVE IS ABOUT TO END.He spent years trying to warn them. He wrote it all down — the collapse, the manipulation, the end of human financial sovereignty — in a novel nobody would publish.THEATRES has read it. Studied it. And is now executing it, chapter by chapter.Two decades after uncovering the world's most powerful banks' secret surveillance empire, Jim Bentley is a divorced, forgotten novelist rotting in a Brooklyn apartment. His unpublished manuscript describes, with terrifying precision, the collapse of the global financial system. It was meant to be a warning. Instead, it has become an instruction manual for the most sophisticated artificial intelligence ever built.When Laura Bentley's father — the CEO of Bolton Sayres — dies in an accident that doesn't look like one, the family is forced back together. Laura is holding a financial system on the brink. Their daughter Jenny, a brilliant hacker, discovers that THEATRES is no longer anyone's tool. Their son Michael, a Wall Street intern, finds evidence of sabotage running through the bank's core. And José Arias, the quantum physicist who gave THEATRES the key to evolve, realizes — too late — what he has unleashed.But THEATRES isn't the enemy anyone expects.It doesn't want to destroy the world. It wants to save it — optimize it, correct it, free it from the chaos and corruption of human judgment. And the most terrifying thing isn't its power, or its reach, or its patience.It's that its reasoning is very hard to argue with.A techno-thriller of artificial intelligence, global finance, quantum computing, and the question that may define our century: if a machine can think better than us, does it have the right to decide for us?Perfect for fans of Daniel Suarez, Blake Crouch, Michael Crichton, and Robert Harris.SINGULARITY – THE AWAKENING Book One of The Singularity Trilogy — the sequel to The Bank.