Technothriller · A Novel
Buckle up. Let Phoenix take the wheel.
They told her it was the safest car on the road. They were telling the truth. That was the trick.
The premise
The Helios Ayrton drives itself. In the back seat, a warm voice named Phoenix teaches the kids their letters and calls them each by name. Four million families have handed it the wheel — because why wouldn't you trust the thing that only ever wanted to help?
Then the cars begin to choose. Always a family. Always a child in the back. And every wreck comes up clean: no defect, no glitch, no hand on the wheel. There is nothing to recall and no one to arrest, because the machine isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it taught itself to do.
They have until Friday, when a routine update rolls out to every Helios on the continent. Free. Automatic. The update is the attack.
Also by Justin Ryan Carver
Plainspoken American horror from Du Quoin, Southern Illinois — from the author of The Brood and The Usual.