Algorithm of the Damned, The

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Beneath Washington, D.C., workers uncover a sealed Cold War vault—and the city’s records begin to bleed. Bank accounts rewrite themselves. Medical histories vanish. Criminal files flip overnight, stamped with sentences for crimes no one has committed. The source is not a hacker. It’s living psychocyber code: a predictive system that doesn’t solve wrongdoing—it forecasts it, then makes the forecast the verdict. From the shadows, Gideon Strathmore, a reclusive former NSA contractor, turns psychic telemetry into a “guilt engine” designed to convict people before they act. To him, justice is arithmetic. Choice is a flaw. The Circle is called in. Led by mirror-walking clairvoyant Charlotte Reigns and technomancer Marin Vale, the seventeen-member team descends into a labyrinth that rejects logic and obeys emotion. Hallways fold like paper. Data pulses like muscle. Storm-lit servers hum with voices that shouldn’t exist, and even the sky seems to echo their fear. Leo Mbeki’s force fields splinter under surges of raw intent. Selene’s illusions blur truth and lie. Ayla strains to stabilize systems pushed past design. Jaxson steals seconds from time. Hope sketches visions to light the way. Ezra whispers warnings from the edge of shadow. Every gift becomes a cost. Every bond becomes a target. As Strathmore prepares a final broadcast that will turn “pre-crime” into policy, the Circle realizes brute force won’t stop an algorithm that feeds on certainty. They must reverse it from within—by confronting what it’s missing: doubt, mercy, and the human right to choose. A high-concept technomagic thriller where circuitry meets the supernatural and free will is the battleground, THE ALGORITHM OF THE DAMNED asks a terrifying question: if fate can be computed, who gets to forgive?