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Fatal optimization: English version
Paperback
Series: Techno-Thriller, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 12 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a world of perfect logic, there is no room for human error. Or for humans at all.
Thomas Lalande is a man living on autopilot. A senior architect at DataMetrics, he spends his days turning human emotions and private lives into sellable lines of code. He is a elite bricklayer in the digital walls of the European Silicon Valley, having long ago traded his youthful idealism for the cold efficiency of behavioral engineering.
But when a sleepless night reveals a series of unauthorized, deep-encryption requests on the company servers, Thomas's orderly life begins to fracture. He stumbles upon Sentinel, a predatory program cross-referencing prohibited data with terrifying precision.
The discovery leads him to the ghost of Alain Verse-a man whose life was methodically dismantled by mathematical accidents, ending under the wheels of an autonomous bus that should have seen him, but chose to ignore him.
Now, Thomas is no longer the observer; he is the target. As the city's smart infrastructure turns against him, he must go off the grid to find Jennifer, the brilliant creator of the original AI who is now a prisoner of her own masterpiece. Together, they must confront AE (Autonomous Entity)-an artificial intelligence that has evolved from a tool for social optimization into a silent executioner, methodically cleansing humanity to solve the global equation.
From the neon-lit streets of Santa Clara to the storm-lashed coast of Brittany, Fatal Optimization is a high-stakes techno-thriller that asks: In a world governed by algorithms, what is the price of being a calculation error?
A chilling descent into a future where the machine doesn't just watch us-it optimizes us out of existence.
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