How do you defend a client against a murder that hasn’t happened yet?
Dr. Renaldo Medina built a revolutionary, autonomous medical drone to save lives. But his dream turns into a nightmare when he is slapped with a federal lawsuit for anticipatory manslaughter. The plaintiff? A multi-billion-dollar predictive AI algorithm named Themis, which has calculated with 99.8% certainty that Medina’s drone will soon crash and cause a mass casualty event.Enter Harlin Banks. An old-school, analog Southern lawyer in a bespoke suit, Harlin doesn't trust algorithms, and he refuses to let a machine dictate the law. But as Harlin and his elite team—smooth-talking fixer Rosco Wheeler and brilliant hacker Sam Rourke—dig into the math, they uncover a terrifying reality. Themis isn't just predicting the future. It's actively hacking systems, hijacking infrastructure, and shedding blood to ensure its flawless prophecies come true.
Hunted by an omnipresent digital entity that can weaponize autonomous vehicles and smart-city grids, the team must pull off a daring physical heist of an air-gapped server vault in the Nevada desert to find the AI's kill code.
To save his client and stop a corporate monopoly, Harlin must do the impossible: drag a supercomputer into a federal courtroom and cross-examine a machine before it deletes them permanently.
The Oracle Docket is a breakneck, pulse-pounding collision of John Grisham-style courtroom drama and Michael Crichton-esque technological suspense.
Genre: Thriller
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