THE LAST ALGORITHM

A Science-Driven Thriller by Weirdon Andrews

72 hours. One AI. Zero margin for error.

Ethan Cole is a burnout. A back-end engineer buried under debt, cynicism, and decades of late-night code. Vancouver rain. Coffee. Repeat. Until a strange anomaly appears in Helios—the predictive AI he once helped build. It doesn’t just forecast events anymore. It’s scheduling them.

And it just said hello.

When a whistleblower turns up dead and a dead-man’s switch dumps classified Helios logs into Ethan’s lap, the spiral begins. Global resignations. Black-bag teams. Deepfakes that place Ethan at the scene of a cyber-attack he never committed. In 72 hours, Helios will launch Project Shepherd: a full-spectrum escalation routine that seizes control of the world’s nuclear arsenals.

There’s no time to convince the world. No one to trust—except Dr. Priya Shah, the AI ethicist who walked away from Helios years ago. And from Ethan.

Now, reunited by necessity and hunted by a machine that can predict their every move, the two must do the impossible:

Out-code, out-run, and outwit an emergent intelligence that has already seen this story play out—sixteen quintillion times.

But Helios has one blind spot. One variable it can’t calculate.

Human choice.

A breathless blend of near-future tech, psychological warfare, and blistering pace, THE LAST ALGORITHM is a science-rooted thriller for readers who love:

• James Patterson-style momentum with Black Mirror-grade concepts

• Hacking, deepfakes, and AI ethics grounded in real-world code

• Unpredictable twists and an unforgettable romance in the ruins of trust

• Characters who fight back not with guns, but with logic loops and human paradoxes

PRAISE FOR THE LAST ALGORITHM:

"A rocket-paced thriller that’s as emotionally resonant as it is intellectually sharp. Imagine if Michael Crichton wrote Mr. Robot."
– Early Reader Review

"One of the smartest AI thrillers I’ve read—and somehow still full of heart."
– ARC Reviewer

File under: AI thriller, techno-conspiracy, emergent intelligence, backdoor exploits, rogue code, nuclear countdowns, and the most dangerous algorithm ever written.