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Predict: The Missing Variable: The Missing Variable
Paperback
Series: The Predict Trilogy, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Russell Pearson
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Crime has nearly disappeared.
An artificial intelligence known as PREDICT analyzes billions of data points to identify those most likely to commit society's most serious crimes before they happen. Courts no longer determine guilt. They measure certainty.
Kent Mercer helped build the system.
For years, he believed PREDICT represented the future of justice, objective, unbiased, and nearly impossible to fool. Then his wife, Jean, is arrested for a murder she has not committed.
As Kent races to save her before the system carries out its irreversible sentence, he uncovers evidence that certainty may not be the same as truth. With time running out, he must decide how far he is willing to go to stop the very system he helped create.
In a world governed by certainty, one missing variable may change everything.
The first novel in the PREDICT trilogy.
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