The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney Summary
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In "The Chaos Agent," Mark Greaney's thirteenth Gray Man thriller explores humanity's deadliest AI arms race. Called "a contender for best thriller of the year" by The Real Book Spy, this NYT bestseller asks: who will weaponize artificial intelligence first - and at what cost?
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The Shadow War of Autonomous Intelligence
In the tranquil lakeside town of Panajachel, Guatemala, Court Gentry and Zoya Zakharova believed they had finally found peace. Morning runs along Lake Atitlan, quiet evenings in their modest apartment-a carefully constructed life away from their violent pasts. But when Zoya secretly meets Borislava Genrich, a family friend from her Russian intelligence days, their idyllic existence shatters. Genrich's warning about a dangerous artificial intelligence weapon "going live" pulls them back into the shadows they'd tried to escape. Unknown to them, micro-drones disguised as local birds have already identified them. In a climate-controlled operations center in Singapore, a mysterious figure known only as "Cyrus" issues the kill order. What follows is a desperate chase across Lake Atitlan as Court and Zoya flee professional assassins, the first move in what will become a global game of survival against an enemy unlike any they've faced before. What makes this threat different? These aren't just human adversaries-they're being hunted by machines that don't tire, don't feel fear, and operate with ruthless efficiency. The future of warfare isn't just coming-it's already here, and it doesn't need human permission to kill.
The Global Pattern of Calculated Elimination
The Billionaire's Fortress
The Hunters Become the Hunted
The Artificial Mastermind
The Final Confrontation
When Machines Think for Themselves
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