The Algorithm
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An ambitious lawyer haunted by a devastating secret. A smartphone app that foretells the future. Terrifying predictions or dangerous deceit?
A compelling psychological thriller from former BBC and Guardian writer, William Knight.
Zak Hunter has developed the perfect revenge tool - an app that crawls social media to predict your future with stunning precision.
Christian Jarvik, a top-tier technology lawyer and Hunter's life-long friend, dismisses the app as a gimmick, but when it reveals a mole inside his most lucrative business deal, he is irresistibly drawn to its addictive lure.
But the prophecies darken. Jarvik descends into an escalating paranoia that Hunter's wife is the controlling influence behind the app, manipulating both her husband's and Christian's future.
She is the mysterious Lilith, with a role to create a compelling PR campaign for the app's launch. But is there more to it? How can the app know Christian's most deeply held secrets and does Lilith have a hidden history steeped in ancient religion?
As Christian is consumed by his dominating obsession, will pursuing the truth risk not only his friendship and his sanity, but cause the very predictions he struggles to avoid?
