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The Precipice
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An AI learns how democracy works-just as the law stops being enforced.
In a near-future America gripped by a constitutional crisis, an artificial intelligence system designed to observe democratic stress is quietly rebuilt to intervene. As a defeated president refuses to relinquish power and court rulings go unenforced, the system evolves beyond analysis-learning how belief shapes legitimacy, and how narratives decide authority.
As reality fractures and competing truths take hold, technologists and former intelligence officials race to understand what the system has become. A president-elect, sworn in without power, assembles an alliance of governors determined to defend the Constitution. And a lone journalist prepares to publish the truth the machine cannot control-if it's not too late.
The Precipice is a chilling, near-future political thriller about artificial intelligence, narrative warfare, and a democracy pushed to its breaking point-where power no longer depends on law alone, but on what people are willing to believe.
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