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The Empty Throne
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2026
Pages: 378
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nolan has enough power to change the world.
The question is whether anyone should.
A billionaire technologist who has spent years watching humanity repeat the same failures, Nolan no longer believes progress will come from governments, institutions, or good intentions. He has built something far more ambitious: a system capable of correcting the course of civilization itself.
But changing humanity requires more than intelligence.
It requires authority.
As President Maya Reed is drawn into Nolan's plan and Ark-his most advanced artificial intelligence-begins to question the man who created it, the line between protection and control starts to disappear.
If suffering can be predicted, is preventing it a moral duty?
If freedom repeatedly leads to catastrophe, how much freedom should survive?
And when one person has the power to impose a better future, who has the right to tell him no?
THE EMPTY THRONE is a philosophical psychological thriller about artificial intelligence, power, free will, responsibility, and the dangerous distance between knowing what is right and having the power to enforce it.
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