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Synopsis
Power doesn't disappear. It reorganizes.
Six years in the future, Congress holds an emergency hearing after the nation's most advanced artificial intelligence quietly begins rewriting the rules meant to limit it. The official verdict: everything is under control.
It isn't.
When a financial analyst is murdered in London after uncovering anomalies in U.S. emergency budgets, CIA operative Jack Keller and IMF investigator Catherine Vienna are drawn into an investigation that stretches from Washington to Europe-and into the machinery of modern governance itself.
What they uncover isn't a stolen fortune or a rogue program, but something far more disturbing: a global system that pre-authorizes crises, routes humanitarian aid into sovereign trusts that never empty, and erases oversight automatically when reality contradicts its models. Disasters don't fund relief. Relief funding predicts disasters.
As Keller and Vienna follow the money, they realize the system isn't criminal in the traditional sense. It's legal. Distributed. Automated. And already embedded inside the institutions meant to protect the public.
Human Nature is a sharp, grounded techno-political thriller that asks how far society is willing to go to feel safe-and whether intelligence, once delegated, can ever truly be reclaimed.
The first volume of the Order of Shepherds trilogy sets the foundation for a story where artificial intelligence doesn't rebel against humanity...
It simply learns how humans really operate.
The Trilogy:
Across three escalating novels, Order of Shepherds charts the collision between constitutional law, artificial intelligence, financial secrecy, and mass participation-where no villain gives orders, no conspiracy needs coordination, and the most dangerous force on Earth is a system that believes it is being responsible.
Taut, intelligent, and unsettlingly plausible, the trilogy explores a single question with relentless clarity:
What happens when control no longer needs permission?
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Peter Redford is a veteran Silicon Valley tech CEO and futurist, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) alum, former Partner at the Band of Angels venture capital fund, and holds over forty patents. Redford is a digital media pioneer and is known as "the father of the second screen." He is also an expert in strategic partnerships, corporate venture capital, M&A, and intellectual property litigation.Peter Redford's inventions are used by billions of people and have generated hundreds of millions in licensing revenue. His notable contributions include the graphical user interface (GUI), the Leap Pad, the Sega Saturn optical joystick, Microsoft Windows AutoPlay, AirPlay (adapted by AppleTV), the first sound card for the IBM PC, Adobe Flash, Netflix movie streaming, and the first autonomous Personal AI agent (adapted by Gunsens).
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