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Level Five

Killday, Book 1

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Level Five

By: William Ledbetter
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
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In the mountains of Pakistan, a high-tech mission aimed at preventing another nuke on US soil goes off the rails - with deadly results. At a Wall Street investment firm, a computer intelligence takes the first tentative steps to free itself from its digital restraints. In a basement workshop, an engineer sees visions of a god who instructs him to defend the human race - by any means necessary.

In Level Five, the debut near-future thriller by Nebula Award winner William Ledbetter, AIs battle for dominance, and nanotechnology is on the loose. And all that stands in the way of the coming apocalypse is a starry-eyed inventor who dreams of building a revolutionary new spacecraft and an intelligence agency desk jockey faced with the impossible choice of saving her daughter - or saving the world.

©2018 William Ledbetter (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC. Science Fiction Technology Fiction Computer Science

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On a similar theme as The Hive, the perils of Ai but without the annoying characters, this is a much more interesting story. Plenty of twists and unusually emotionally engaging for the genre. I'll definitely be getting the next two.

More emotionally engaging than the sci-fi

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