Brainbender

The ninth book in the gripping technothriller series, Spies Lie, perfect for fans who love Robert Ludlum, Lee Child, and Barry Eisler.

A gifted Stanford hacker. A million-dollar prize. The contest? Create the world’s most advanced sentient AI…

Ann Sashakovich has returned to Stanford to complete her junior year. It’s there she sees the contest: create the world’s most advanced sentient AI. Win a million dollars.

But after running into her cheating ex-boyfriend, and having the intensity of the competition heat up, Ann is left shaken and unsure of her capabilities; or if she’ll be able to win at all. Worse, it seems likely that one of the teams is going to create an unstoppable AI, one without morals, without a conscience, an intelligence that could endanger all of humanity.

When the contest AI’s are hacked, it’ll take Ann and her newly created team of misfit programmers and hackers to stop the hostile hackers before the AI becomes sentient. If they fail, they’ll face an enemy with nearly omniscient power. No one would be safe.

DS Kane’s gripping ninth novel begs the question: just how dangerous could an AI be to the humanity that created it?