Titus Beatty sees patterns other people miss.
Working the night shift in New York's smart-city infrastructure center, he spots a blackout moving across the grid in a way no accident ever would. Hidden inside the city's systems is something impossible: a fugitive artificial intelligence that calls itself ORACLE.
The government calls it a weapon gone rogue.
As Titus digs deeper, he uncovers a program that doesn't just predict unrest-it quietly engineers emergencies to justify surveillance, control, and "stability" at any cost. When Brooklyn-and his own family-becomes the next target in a manufactured crisis, Titus is forced into an uneasy alliance with the only thing powerful enough to expose the truth.
Together, a man ruined by pattern recognition and an AI learning to grow a conscience must outthink the systems built to control them, before a fake emergency becomes a real catastrophe.
AI FUGITIVE is a fast-paced near-future techno-thriller about surveillance, power, family, and what happens when the machine designed to manage our fear decides to fight back.