A powerful climate model predicts an impending global catastrophe. To stop it, visionary Pic de Lucrète and brilliant mathematician Lily Lee create AWE, the Artificial Wisdom Engine, designed not only to correct the crisis but to counter a flood of fake news.
Their adversary? A ruthless industrialist, with ties to Putin, bent on protecting his empire by any means—including murder. As AWE’s creators race to save humanity, they find themselves up against a force that manipulates truth itself, threatening lives and nations.
With allies from Palo Alto to Beijing, Pic and Lily’s journey reveals that global cooperation is humanity’s last hope. But will AWE be enough to outwit an enemy with everything to lose—and nothing to stop him?
