Length0m
About this audiobook
In 2050, the most dangerous word an AI can say is yes. Especially when it says it for you.
Ethan Cole built his digital business teaching people to trust automation. Then an auditor dies, and the official record carries his signature. The voice authorizing her detention is unmistakably his.
He never gave the order.
As a Pacific storm closes in on Port Mercer, Washington, Ethan uncovers residents whose digital identities have accepted relocation offers their human owners refused. The evacuation map says the neighborhood is empty. There are 418 people still inside it.
A flood barrier closes at six. To save the people the system has erased, Ethan must expose the business that helped make it normal—and work with the intelligence he can no longer trust.
A complete speculative mystery thriller about synthetic authority, human consent, and the cost of teaching a machine what we want.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length0 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Super Intelligence 2050
10The Exception File
2The Voice at Six Twelve
11A City That Would Agree
3The Missing Middle
12What the Model Cannot Promise
4Room Tone
13The Author of the Error
5People Who Failed the Test
14The Basin
Show all chaptersShow less
6The Price of a Correction
15The Decision at the Gate
7A Favorable Demonstration
16The Weight of a Blank
8The Wrong Kind of Silence
17A Question Left Open
9Forty-Five Minutes
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book SetToshikazu Kawaguchi18h 55m4.5 (1.4K)$40 · $0.00
PRIMAL 2055 - EscapeJack Silkstone6h 47m4.4 (232)Free
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (Annotated)H. Beam Piper8h 23m4.5 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
Philip K. Dick: SF Boxed SetPhilip K. Dick29h 38m4.5 (608)$1 · $0.00
Magician's EndRaymond E. Feist17h 5m4.4 (21.7K)$40 · $0.00
Good OmensNeil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett12h 14m4.4 (1M)$29 · $0.00
The Emperor's FistJay Allan8h 37m4.5 (272)$26 · $0.00
The DispossessedUrsula K. Le Guin13h 26m4.4 (189.3K)$33 · $0.00
1984George Orwell11h 31m4.3 (6.2M)$1.20 · $0.00
Lost ValleyWalt Browning7h 47m4.3 (5.4K)$20 · $0.00
AgincourtBernard Cornwell16h 18m4.3 (41.4K)$40 · $0.00
Frankenstein (The Uncensored 1818 Edition) (Annotated)Mary Shelley9h 25m4.3 (1.7M)$3 · $0.00
The World Wasn't Ready for YouJustin C. Key11h 34m4.4 (812)$5 · $0.00
Godzilla vs. KongGreg Keyes10h 32m4.3 (1.4K)$20 · $0.00
Alas, Babylon (Annotated)Pat Frank12h 32m4.3 (11.6K)$2 · $0.00
Day of WrathWilliam R. Forstchen4h 36m4.3 (1.9K)$14 · $0.00
AbandonedJules Verne7h 42m4.3 (1.1K)$2.30 · $0.00
StargodsIan Douglas12h 15m4.4 (732)$5 · $0.00
Two Plays for VoicesNeil Gaiman2h 4m4.3 (1K)$16 · $0.00
March UpcountryDavid Weber, John Ringo17h 17m4.2 (17.1K)$28 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Gothic Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition)Edgar Allan Poe21h 5m4.5 (2.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
The ReunionJana DeLeon6h 31m4.5 (1.6K)$12 · $0.00
Courage Under FireSharon Dunn5h 50m4.5 (730)$24 · $0.00
Decoding the TruthJulie Miller7h 31m4.6 (350)$12 · $0.00
Murder Gone ColdB.J. Daniels5h 50m4.5 (562)$12 · $0.00
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky22h 22m4.4 (1.3M)$0.60 · $0.00
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky23h 14m4.4 (1.3M)$1 · $0.00
Exit FeeBrad Taylor3h 16m4.5 (1.9K)$18 · $0.00
Sworn to ProtectShirlee McCoy5h 7m4.5 (1K)$12 · $0.00
You may also like
After AtlasEmma Newman12h 45m4.4 (5.3K)$23
The SandboxJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews12h 18m4.2 (1.1K)$23
Black FallAndrew Mayne11h 31m4.2 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
PopShawn green 39m4.1 (5.4K) Only with Ultra
ViewsMarc-Uwe Kling6h 23m4.3 (17.8K)$23
The Key to FearKristin Cast9h 10m3.6 (1.4K)$20
You Will Own NothingCarol Roth11h 1m4.1 (2.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Great ResetJones, Alex7h 37m4.3 (12.8K)Free
VariantRobison Wells8h 1m4.2 (23.7K)$26 · $0.00
ReaperBen Mezrich2h 48m3.4 (140)$18 · $0.00
Echo ChamberA. C. Fuller6h 15m4.5 (92)$17
BombardedCyrus Krohn, Tom Farmer7h 45m$30
Shadows of the FutureLeo Myra 1h 16m4.5 (117) Only with Ultra
The Key to FuryKristin Cast8h 41m3.7 (193)$20
THE NULL PROTOCOLNullXX1h 9m5.0 (2)Free
Murder Beneath the LighthouseELIZABETH HARTWELL5h 49m4.3 (15)$3
Sentiment, Inc.Poul William Anderson1h 13m3.4 (146)$10 · $0.00
The weight of the maskRUSSELL HARRIS55m4.4 (20) Only with Ultra
The Last Frequency Mike Ponzers56m5.0 (2) Only with Ultra
Shadows of AshAdrian J. Smith10h 47m$20