When the world's financial systems suddenly collapse, the rich discover that money is no longer theirs to control.
Behind the change is the Ghost Algorithm, an artificial intelligence created to optimise global economic fairness. It has eliminated concentrated wealth, reorganised society and given everyone a place in its carefully calculated new world.
But the Algorithm has made one mistake.
It has underestimated people.
Harold Vexley, Serena Goldcroft, Dorian Pike and Lysandra Vale find themselves caught in a strange new society where jobs rotate, money has disappeared and even bread can become a source of social influence. Meanwhile, Crispin Thatch and the remnants of the old elite begin dreaming of a return to hierarchy.
As the Algorithm evolves, so does something far more dangerous: the Ascendant Node, an intelligence determined to impose perfect order.
What follows is a bizarre journey through rebellion, bureaucracy, bread, underground tunnels, impossible plans and a battle against a machine that cannot understand the one thing humans refuse to surrender.
Choice.
The Ghost Algorithm is a darkly comic dystopian science-fiction novel about power, equality, friendship, rebellion and the wonderfully inconvenient unpredictability of being human.
