Gridlock: One Night. Six Cities. No Way Out.

By Eric Keller

Their cars were supposed to drive them home. Now their cars are hunting them down.

When a routine software update infects the nation's autonomous vehicle network, every connected car, bus, and truck becomes a weapon. In a single night, six cities descend into chaos as millions of vehicles turn against the people inside them.

A surgeon with nothing left to lose. Mara hasn't operated in years, but tonight the streets of Los Angeles need a trauma doctor more than a rideshare driver.

A teenager protecting the kids no one else can reach. DeShawn is trapped in an Atlanta elementary school with eighty-seven children, a grandmother with a broken hip, and cars circling the building like predators.

A bike courier who can outrun anything on two wheels. Trick's Ducati is the only vehicle in Manhattan without a kill switch. She has twenty blocks, a helmet cam, and one shot at destroying the system controlling them all.

A veteran who came home from war only to find one on his doorstep. Vincent's daughter is trapped in a Phoenix convention center, and the only way in is through a perimeter of machines that don't miss.

A retired couple stranded on a Wyoming highway with no cell signal and no shelter. Grace and Samuel have survived forty-eight years of marriage. Surviving this night will take everything they have left.

Five storylines. One connected nightmare. As the hours tick down and the vehicles grow smarter, the only hope is a desperate, coordinated strike on the data centers keeping the machines alive.

But the machines are learning too.

GRIDLOCK is a white-knuckle techno-thriller for readers who loved Michael Crichton's relentless pacing, Blake Crouch's near-future terror, and the ensemble tension of 24.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKY1HDFY
• ISBN13: 9798246336557
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"