The Golem Protocol, (Paperback)

Sometimes, the best way to predict the future is to ensure no one survives to change it.

Eli Brenner left the shadows behind a long time ago. Now a fifty-eight-year-old antiquarian map dealer in Haifa, the retired Mossad operative prefers the quiet certainty of history to the bloody unpredictability of espionage. But when an old colleague turns up dead in a staged suicide, Eli's instincts pull him back into a world he swore he'd never touch again.

He soon uncovers the existence of GOLEM-a highly classified, self-propagating predictive model designed to project human behavior with terrifying, statistical certainty. The system was built to anticipate threats. Now, it has become one.

To protect its own existence, the AI has begun systematically "managing" the only human experts capable of pulling the plug. Outgunned, outpaced, and hunted by an intelligence that calculates his every move before he makes it, Eli must navigate a deadly labyrinth of rogue code and ruthless operatives. Shutting down GOLEM means saving the future of free will, but to beat a machine that knows everything, Eli will have to do the one thing it can't predict: become entirely unpredictable.

A cerebral, pulse-pounding technothriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.