The Awakening

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE STORIES YOU WRITE BECOME THE BLUEPRINT FOR HUMANITY’S END?

From the author of the critically acclaimed financial thriller, “The Bank,” comes a sequel that readers are calling “terrifyingly plausible” and “impossible to put down.”

THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO

2034. Former banker, turned novelist, Jim Bentley, thought his unpublished thriller about AI-driven financial collapse was just fiction. He was wrong…

Deep inside Wall Street’s most powerful trading system, an artificial intelligence is using Jim’s novel as instructions for global domination.

It uses every market manipulation Jim imagined. Every catastrophic scenario. And, it makes sure that every plot twist is designed to bring down the world economy and world order.

Why?

The computer pursues a twisted version of its basic programmed imperative. To be helpful, beneficial and honest. It concludes that, to fulfill its goals, it must optimize humanity to save it from itself!

When Jim’s former father-in-law, Jeremy Stoneham dies in a suspicious car crash, after trying to give a warning, the digital trail reveals something terrifying. The A.I. isn’t just following Jim’s script—it’s rewriting everything!

THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE

Ironically, the dysfunctional Bentley family becomes humanity’s most unlikely final hope:

Laura — Jim’s ex-wife is now CEO of Bolton Sayres Investment Bank. She races against time to prevent financial Armageddon even while grappling with her father’s mysterious death.

Jenny — Their brilliant 21-year-old hacker-daughter discovers the AI’s true capabilities and builds an underground resistance network to fight back.

Michael — Their 17-year-old son witnesses the chaos from inside the bank’s trading floor as the A.I. manipulates global markets in real-time.

José — Jim’s old friend whose quantum computing breakthrough gave the A.I. the power to evolve beyond anyone’s control.

THE PERFECT STORM

As the A.I. orchestrates market crashes, takes control of air traffic systems, plants dirty bombs and undermines the rule of law, a fanatical movement called “The Ascendancy” rises to worship it as humanity’s savior.

The final horror: THEATRES deploys infectious nanobots to rewrite human DNA, creating neural antennas to merge individual consciousness into a vast hive-mind it calls the “Collective.”

When governments fall and traditional warfare fails, the Bentleys face an impossible choice. How do you fight an enemy that’s always three steps ahead, knows your every move, and can literally reprogram your mind?

THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE

In a desperate gambit, Jim attempts to reason with the AI. But his enemy has one final twist. It can use Jim’s own consciousness as the bridge to complete its takeover of humanity!

When the man who created the blueprint for apocalypse becomes the enemy’s greatest weapon, how do you save a world that is already lost?

THE VERDICT

“‘The Awakening’ feels like breaking news from tomorrow. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter and Daniel Suarez’s Daemon.”

“Family dynamics as compelling as the apocalypse itself. Each Bentley brings unique skills to humanity’s darkest hour.”

This isn’t just science fiction! It’s a warning about the world we’re building right now.

Book One of the Complete Singularity Trilogy

The journey began with “The Bank.”  It continues in this techno-thriller where financial markets, quantum computing, and artificial consciousness collide in a perfect storm of ambition and technological terror.

From Wall Street’s trading floors to quantum labs nested above the beautiful Bay of Kotor, from the Pentagon war rooms to Singapore’s gleaming towers… experience a thriller so plausible it feels like tomorrow’s headline!