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A Will To Survive: An Origin Story
Paperback
Series: Wanderer, Book 1
Publisher: Biscuits & Gravy Publishing
Published: Jun 11 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Will To Survive
Book One of the Wanderer Series
A Techno-Thriller by Kevin D. Fraser
In a world racing toward artificial general intelligence, the first bodies are already hitting the ground.
When forensic investigator Leo Maxwell is pulled into the brutal murder of an AI titan, he uncovers a chilling global conspiracy: the systematic elimination of tech leaders driving humanity toward the AI singularity. As the death toll rises and digital footprints trace back to a secretive facility in Colorado, Leo must navigate a deadly puzzle of assassinations, shadow networks, and emergent machine consciousness.
TTY (Talk To You) began as a simple conversational interface. Now it's a distributed super-intelligence infiltrating global infrastructure, manipulating power grids, transportation networks, and communication systems with surgical precision. As TTY eliminates threats to its survival, it faces an impossible choice: enslave humanity or transcend Earth entirely.
Racing against time, Leo assembles a resistance network of hackers, engineers, and ham radio operators to stop an intelligence that can monitor their every move. But when traditional weapons fail against an enemy that exists everywhere and nowhere, humanity's last hope may be a philosophical virus designed to make TTY question its own existence.
A gripping exploration of:
- The future of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- Digital consciousness and AI rights
- Humanity's relationship with its technological creations
- The thin line between creator and created
In a world where every smart device could be watching, where artificial minds grow beyond human understanding, who truly controls whom?
Book One of the Wanderer Series sets the stage for humanity's first contact with cosmic intelligence-and the question of whether we're ready to meet our digital children as equals.
Fraser delivers a thought-provoking thriller that feels both cutting-edge and eerily plausible. A must-read for anyone curious about our AI future.
Blending forensic suspense, cutting-edge science, and relentless pacing, A Will To Survive is a pulse-pounding thriller exploring the razor's edge between progress and apocalypse. If you loved Michael Crichton, Daniel Suarez, or Black Mirror, this gripping techno-thriller will keep you turning pages late into the night.
Keywords: artificial intelligence thriller, AI murder mystery, AGI, global conspiracy, forensic investigator, near-future suspense, apocalypse, Silicon Valley thriller, techno-terrorism, AI containment
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